DNA evidence just helped convict illegal loggers in the US Pacific Northwest

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By <a class="author-link"…Mar 10, 2016, 12:01 pm60 pts
The theft of bigleaf maple to feed the demand for rare tonewoods used by musical instrument makers has been a persistent problem in the U.S. Pacific Northwest for years, but now law enforcement officials say they’ve brought a ring of illegal loggers to justice — and used DNA evidence to convict them. Harold…

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