Eric Burkhart
Program Director, Appalachian Botany and Ethnobotany, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
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3400 Discovery Road
Petersburg, PA 16669 - epb6@psu.edu
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Phenology Panax Quinquefolius Case Studies Leaves Regulatory Approach Shrub Panax Stakeholder Profitability Shrubs Cites Citizen Convention On International Trade In Endangered Species Citizen Scientists Stakeholders Industry North America Flora Forest Plants Program Programme Product Overstory Price Growing SeasonMost Recent Papers
Citizen scientists record novel leaf phenology of invasive shrubs in eastern U.S. forests
Erynn Maynard-Bean, Margot Kaye, Tyler Wagner, Eric P. Burkhart, 2020, Biological Invasions on p. 3325-3337
Ramps: an important forest resource and emerging forest "crop"
Eric Burkhart, 2019, Forest Leaves
Opportunities from American ginseng husbandry in Pennsylvania
Eric Burkhart, M Jacobson, 2017, on p. 16
Chapter 21, Native plants for the Pennsylvania garden
Eric Burkhart, 2016, Penn State Master Gardeners Training Manual
Slipping away? Slippery elm in the herbal marketplace - past, present and future
Eric Burkhart, 2016, Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation on p. 4
American ginseng: a threatened native plant with specialty crop potential
Eric Burkhart, 2014, Keystone Wild Notes on p. 19-22
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) floristic associations in Pennsylvania: Guidance for identifying calcium-rich forest farming sites
Eric Burkhart, 2013, Agroforestry Systems on p. 1157-1172
A case study of stakeholder perspective and experience with wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) conservation efforts in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Limitations to a CITES driven, top-down regulatory approach
Eric P. Burkhart, Michael Gregory Jacobson, James Craig Finley, 2012, Biodiversity and Conservation on p. 3657-3679
Forest farming: An agroforestry approach to integrated forest management
Eric Burkhart, 2011, Pennsylvania Forests on p. 15
Transitioning from wild collection to forest cultivation of indigenous medicinal forest plants in eastern North America is constrained by lack of profitability
Eric P. Burkhart, Michael Gregory Jacobson, 2009, Agroforestry Systems on p. 437-453
Most-Cited Papers
A case study of stakeholder perspective and experience with wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) conservation efforts in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Limitations to a CITES driven, top-down regulatory approach
Eric P. Burkhart, Michael Gregory Jacobson, James Craig Finley, 2012, Biodiversity and Conservation on p. 3657-3679
Citizen scientists record novel leaf phenology of invasive shrubs in eastern U.S. forests
Erynn Maynard-Bean, Margot Kaye, Tyler Wagner, Eric P. Burkhart, 2020, Biological Invasions on p. 3325-3337
Opportunities from American ginseng husbandry in Pennsylvania
Eric Burkhart, M Jacobson, 2017, on p. 16
Chapter 21, Native plants for the Pennsylvania garden
Eric Burkhart, 2016, Penn State Master Gardeners Training Manual
Slipping away? Slippery elm in the herbal marketplace - past, present and future
Eric Burkhart, 2016, Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation on p. 4
American ginseng: a threatened native plant with specialty crop potential
Eric Burkhart, 2014, Keystone Wild Notes on p. 19-22
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) floristic associations in Pennsylvania: Guidance for identifying calcium-rich forest farming sites
Eric Burkhart, 2013, Agroforestry Systems on p. 1157-1172
Forest farming: An agroforestry approach to integrated forest management
Eric Burkhart, 2011, Pennsylvania Forests on p. 15
Ramps: an important forest resource and emerging forest "crop"
Eric Burkhart, 2019, Forest Leaves
News Articles Featuring Eric Burkhart
Aug 19, 2020
Invasive shrubs in Northeast forests grow leaves earlier and keep them longer
The rapid pace that invasive shrubs infiltrate forests in the northeastern United States makes scientists suspect they have a consistent advantage over native shrubs, and the first region-wide study of leaf timing, conducted by Penn State researchers, supports those suspicions.
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Jul 15, 2020
Ecology Institute announces grant recipients
The Ecology Institute has awarded 11 proposals from across the University as part of its Flower Grant program, including five projects submitted by faculty at Commonwealth Campuses.
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Jan 08, 2020
Demand for ginseng is creating a ‘wild west’ in Appalachia
With poachers cashing in on the Chinese appetite for American ginseng, growers are arming up.
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Nov 25, 2019
Forest farms could create market for ginseng, other herbs
A transition from wild collection of herbs to forest farming needs to occur in Appalachia to make the opaque, unstable and unjust supply chain for forest medicinal plants such as ginseng sustainable, according to a team of researchers who have studied the market for more than a decade.
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