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Home 2018 June 13

WRI raising awareness for the potentials of wood DNA testing

  • June 13, 2018
Network, Research institute, Timber tracking, Uncategorized
GTTN partner World Resources Institute (WRI) recently posted a blog article on how “DNA Testing Can Save Trees from Illegal Logging”. By referring to a scandalous case in 2015, when Washington state sawmill owner Harold Clause Kupers was found guilty for buying logs illegally harvested from Gifford Pinchot National Forest, […]
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