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

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

Hundreds of ginseng roots were recovered after being illegally harvested from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials ...

A federal judge earlier this month sentenced a North Carolina man to six months in jail. The crime? Illegally possessing more than 500 ginseng roots he harvested in the Great Smoky Mountains National ...

Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House) That Midwestern soil is, ...

LAVALE, Md. — Mark MacDonald and his dad have dug a lot of ginseng in their time, but nothing could have prepared them for the find they made one Sunday afternoon earlier this month while exploring a ...

Ginseng has been used in my family for generations, but I still had many questions about the botanical. Where did it come from? Is it rooted in any African American traditions? For many African ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Iris Gao keeps a ginseng root in her office. It’s fixed on black velvet with three other bleached-brown ...

The Hongcheon Ginseng and Hanwoo Premium Festival will run for four days from Thursday through Sunday at Tori Forest in ...