MEDICINAL BOTANICAL CAPITAL IN NEPAL AND INDIA

Session #4 | 9am - 10:30am | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 145

Laura Caplins, University of Montana
Sarah Halvorson, University of Montana
Political Ecology of Cordyceps in the Garhwal Himalaya of Northern India

Kabir Mansingh Heimsath, Lewis and Clark College
Strange Intersections: Humans, Technology and Insects in a Himalayan Valley

Alton Byers, University of Colorado Boulder
Contemporary Impacts of Yarsugumba ("caterpillar fungus") Harvesting on Alpine Ecosystems and Wildlife Populations in Highland Nepal

Deep Chapagain, Tribhuvan University
Variation in life history traits of a threatened medicinal plant Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soó along an environmental gradient in Nepal Himalaya.

Bhupendra Nirajan, Earth Open Source
Cultivation of medicinal plants- reinstating human-nature relationship: Empirical findings from Babagoriya community forest, Nawalparasi, Nepal.

Chair: Sarah Halvorson, University of Montana