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A Lumber Thief Stole Precious Maple and Thought He Left No Evidence. But He Forgot About the Tree’s DNA.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Investigators used a tree's genes to match it to lumber sold by poachers. There are over 60,000 tree species in the world, all genetically different.
The New York Times

A Fading Tree, Once Majestic, Had to Come Down. But It Wasn’t the End.

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood turner in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For the First Time, Tree DNA Was Used to Convict Lumber Thieves in Federal Investigation

The Maple Fire photographed burning up Jefferson Ridge in Olympic National Forest, Washington. In court documents, prosecutors alleged that men convicted of illegal logging in the National Forest may ...
Woodworking Network

Soft maple: Despite name, good for flooring, furniture

In North America, the maple species are divided into two groups: soft maple (which includes red maple, Acer rubrum, silver maple, A. saccharinum, and bigleaf maple, A. macrophyllum) and hard maple ...
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A Lumber Thief Stole Precious Maple and Thought He Left No Evidence. But He Forgot About the Tree’s DNA.

For the first time ever, investigators used tree DNA as evidence in court—to help convict a wood poacher. In July 2021, Justin Andrew Wilke was convicted of conspiracy, theft of public property, ...