MUSHROOMS AND TIMBER : MANAGING COMMERCIAL HARVESTING IN THE OREGON CASCADES
1999
decline in timber harvesting from federal forests. The harvest of these products involves complex and interrelated social, economic, managerial, nd biological issues ( ee Savage 1995; Molina et al. 1997). Although timber typically exceeds nontimber forest products in value, opportunities xist o manage for both, to the benefit of different groups. Of nontimber products, the wild mushroom industry in the Pacific Northwest, estimated at $41.1 million in 1992, is second only to the $128.5 million harvest of floral greens (Schlosser and Blatner 1995). Excluding truffles, the American matsutake (•icholoma magnivelare) is the most valuable mushroom harvested in the Pacific Northwest because it is similar
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