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done more tor herbal medicine than anyone in America.” Ms. Gladstar spoke of the need to ensure “that those plants that are * the basis for North American herbal medicine are. here for our children and grandchildren.” She discussed how the replanting of native species on her land in Vermont had a restorative effect, and how it led to the formation of the United Plant Savers.
Richard Liebmann discussed the human-plant symbiosis and the threats to native medicinals: increasing demand for medicinal plants, and development and logging pressures on habitat. Paul Strauss discussed activities on UpS’ Botanical Sanctuary in Ohio, and narrated slides showing many of the at-risk native medicinal plants.
Among those are many that are locally familiar: American ginseng, Virginia snakeroot, goldenseal, echi
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