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RE: Ginseng Festival and Wholesale Market
I've seen one or two episodes of that. I'm guessing they are either stealing ginseng or threatening people who enter their territory to pick ginseng. Wild ginseng is rare and expensive. I know in some areas the authorities put up signs that say they found it and have died it blue because that ruins the chances of it being used in traditional recipes.
I was disappointed to find out that they cancelled the show after season 2 I think, and the word from some is that it was because it had gotten too dangerous.
Those Appalachian people poaching the "sang" as they call it, aren't ones to screw around with, and when that really mean dude and his thugs came up from somewhere in the south and started taking over everyone's sang, that was the end of the series.
I hope someday soon they go back and give an update!