IFCAE Project:
Non Timber Forest Products Website
| Timeframe: 1999 to Present |
| Project Leader: Eric T. Jones |
| Contractors: Elliot Lee/AnthroTECH, Alex Krohn/Gossamer-Threads, Robert Albano |
| Contact: contact@ifcae.org |
| Funding Organizations: Institute for Culture and Ecology, Turner Foundation, USFS State and Private Forestry, North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation |
| URL: www.ifcae.org/ntfp/ |
Project Description
The Non Timber Forest Products website
purpose is to provide conservation and
development information on commercial, recreational, and subsistence
extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFP). A diverse range of areas
are covered including cultural, ecological, economic, geographic, and
political. The focus of the website is the United
States.
The website contains several extensive databases:
1)
Product Database - used to help identify regional NTFPs.
2)
Bibliographic Database - contains nearly 1,500 references on NTFPs.
3)
Links Database - has several hundred categorized links to NTFP
resources.