Comments on: “It would become extinct in five years with no incentive to replant.” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/it-would-become-extinct-in-five-years-with-no-incentive-to-replant/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/it-would-become-extinct-in-five-years-with-no-incentive-to-replant/comment-page-1/#comment-327267 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:52:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55080#comment-327267 In reply to delurking.

It grows on private land as well, but the wild ginseng is so valuable that it gets poached off private land too.

What I don’t get is given how valuable the NA wild ginseng is why hasn’t anyone tried actively cultivating it yet?

]]> By: delurking https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/it-would-become-extinct-in-five-years-with-no-incentive-to-replant/comment-page-1/#comment-327258 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:14:51 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55080#comment-327258 If it is being harvested from parkland, then it is a classic tragedy of the commons, so whether or not the feds ban its sale, it is probably doomed.

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