Nearly $500,000 from an initiative of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) will fund the start of a project to accelerate Appalachia’s forest farming industry. Virginia Tech will work with ...

As Appalachian ginseng turns from rural tradition to global commodity, the Forest Service is trying to keep foragers at bay. By Katie Myers/Grist Published Oct 6, 2024 12:00 PM EDT This story was ...

Appalachia is globally recognized as a key supplier of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with growing demand for its resources. Nearly half of the woodland medicinal species in the global ...

Although Michelle Pridgen knew black cohosh was growing on the forested acreage of her Windy Hill Farm in western Virginia, she never considered adding it to the list of crops she harvests—until a ...

ELKINS, W.Va. — The Appalachian Regional Commission has awarded nearly $1.9 million through the POWER Initiative to Woodlands Community Lender on behalf of Mon Forest Towns Partnership for a series of ...

MILLERSBURG, Ohio (WCMH) — Wildfire season is in full swing in the western United States. There is a difference between the forests in the Midwest and Appalachia compared to the western states. Brad ...

The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according ...

Forest food and medicine have a long history in Appalachian culture, but the region’s social landscape is shifting from in-migration of amenity seekers and out-migration of multigenerational residents ...