Wild American Ginseng: Lessons for Conservation in the Age of Humans McGraw James
Wild American Ginseng: Lessons for Conservation in the Age of Humans McGraw James Wild American ginseng, America's most famous medicinal plant, is in trouble. As the world's foremost authority on…
Specifikacia Wild American Ginseng: Lessons for Conservation in the Age of Humans McGraw James
Wild American Ginseng: Lessons for Conservation in the Age of Humans McGraw James
Wild American ginseng, America's most famous medicinal plant, is in trouble. As the world's foremost authority on wild ginseng, McGraw is uniquely poised to present this story based on more than twenty years of uninterrupted field research.McGraw traces the dramatic ecological history of ginseng in North America, documenting the ginseng-centric view of a world increasingly dominated by both direct and indirect actions of humans. In plain prose, James McGraw explains why as he translates the latest in ecological and conservation science findings on this unassuming understory herb.
Documenting lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) in human interactions with wild species, McGraw shows us the evidence of our slowly Far more than a story of a single plant species, ginseng becomes a parable, a canary in a coal mine, for what is happening to our dwindling wild species across the globe.
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