Provides the first comprehensive examination of nontimber forest products in the United States, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them. The authors offer a survey of commercial and noncommercial products, an overview of uses and users, and discussions of sustainable management issues associated with ecology, cultural traditions, forest policy, and commerce. Will provide many answers -- and some questions -- to help companies wend their way through the sustainable forestry jungle.