One of the most prominent guitar manufacturers in the country may have unknowingly purchased poached wood from a national forest in Washington. According to a federal indictment unsealed in Seattle this week, Maryland-based PRS Guitars is not implicated in the case, but a small mill owner and three alleged poachers are named.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Austin Jenkins of Northwest News Network reports on the thriving black market for rare woods found only in the Pacific Northwest.
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- Austin Jenkins, Olympia correspondent for Northwest News Network. He tweets @AustinJenkinsN3.
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