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For the past four years, Jim Chamberlain, research forest products technologist for the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) unit in Blacksburg, VA, has driven down to the mountains of western North Carolina to dig ramps with the festivals that are a springtime tradition in the Southern Appalachians.
