Ramps, or wild onions, are harvested on private property in a forest near Baroda, Michigan, in 2015. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — When you think about poaching, ramps are likely ...

1. Forest fragmentation often results in a matrix of open areas mixed with patches of forest. Both biotic and abiotic factors can affect consumer species' ability to utilize the altered habitat, ...

In the April 1999 issue of Food & Wine, author Tama Janowitz — who then-editor in chief Dana Cowin called "the quintessential urbanite" — traveled to Idaho to learn to forage for morel mushrooms.

There’s free food everywhere, if you know where to look. Falling Fruit, which maps publicly available produce in several countries, lists 554 edible varieties (mostly plants) in 570,000 locations.

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 120, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 531-544 (14 pages) I examined how High Andean insectivorous birds partition resources in remnant Polylepis forest patches at three ...

The terminal Pleistocene/Holocene boundary represented a major ecological threshold for humans, both as a significant climate transition and due to the emergence of agriculture around this time. In ...

WASHINGTON — The terrain was tricky, the bugs were out, and the heat from the sun was growing more intense by the minute — but Drew Adams was determined to find mushrooms. After about 20 minutes of ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Nectar-eating bats that get most of their nutrition from banana plantations in Costa Rica boast less diverse gut microbiota than their peers living and eating in natural forest ...

Foraging; middle-class pastime or a cost-of-living godsend? In recent years, in an effort to get out of the house and back to nature many people have taken up foraging - the practice of looking for ...

Zach Papaleoni recently walked through Whisky Hollow Nature Preserve in Van Buren, scanning the forest floor. He bent down and plucked a small, tan-colored mushroom from the ground and twirled it in ...

Known for freeways more than forests, Los Angeles isn't the first place one thinks of when it comes to foraging for food in the wilderness. But for Pascal Baudar, the city is a treasure trove of ...