We seek something in these woods that’s rarer and more valuable than any of the above: wild American ginseng root. Because wild ginseng is so valuable—and because poachers have turned it into ...

Ginseng Roots follows Craig and his siblings, who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour.

He was sentenced to 30 days in prison, ordered to pay more than $6,200 in restitution and banned for three years from the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, where the ginseng was stolen from, ...

The state of Wisconsin, whose climate, soil and topography create ideal conditions for growing the root crop, accounts for 95 percent of American ginseng production. The American ginseng sector ...

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A man is sentenced for illegally digging up ginseng at a national park in Virginia, federal prosecutors said. Gary Kauffman/USFS A man will serve prison time after pleading guilty to illegally ...