NPS rangers recovered nearly 700 wild ginseng roots poached from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Experts warn understaffed public lands face an ongoing threat.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ginseng plant with berries in fall, Whitesville, W.Va. Lyntha Scott Eller/Library of Congress, CC BY-ND Across Appalachia, ...

In total, the suspects were found to possess nearly 700 pounds of poached ginseng. See the charges poachers could face and more.

Crossing the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is by far the most-visited ...

How can closely related plant species occur on two continents, thousands of miles apart? This distribution pattern is known as disjunction, and it’s a particular area of interest for Dr. Jun Wen, an ...

A YSE-led study published in Environmental Research Letters found that current federal rules regulating American ginseng harvest—based on plant age and leaf count—poorly predict the biological traits ...

Ginseng buyers report buying about 1,000 pounds of Pennsylvania ginseng each year on reports they file with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. That would be equivalent ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Broke and down on his luck, Billy Joe Hurley turned to the only way he knew how to make a living: poaching ginseng. But after his latest in a long string of arrests, federal ...

(CBS News) Millions of Americans take ginseng for its perceived health benefits. The harvest for wild American ginseng begins this month. It's also high-season for poaching. That's leading to a ...

American ginseng is disappearing from the forests of Pennsylvania and Appalachia, and a Penn State plant scientist is working with landowners and law enforcement to try to reverse that trend. Wild ...