[PCA] Fw: Illegal logging concern rises with timber value

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

WHITESBURG, Ky. - The crime scene — a once-wooded landscape marked by tire 
tracks and tree stumps — makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically 
violated.

"It's just like someone cut your heart out," says the 77-year-old Potter, 
who lost an estimated $50,000 worth of generations-old oak trees, which 
were taken from her property and sold, without permission, while she was 
away.

Full story  at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22441335/


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