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Mark Hatfield

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Forensic Lab in Ashland, Oregon includes a collection of reference samples of protected wildlife species. Lab staff say no animals were actually killed to build the collection.

The key to some big endangered species crime investigations is a small lab in Oregon

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Trying to figure out where that confiscated rhino horn came from? Is that guitar made from a piece of endangered tropical hardwood? You might find the answers to your questions at the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Forensic Lab in Ashland, Oregon, the only one like it in the world.Trying to figure out where that confiscated rhino horn came from? Is that guitar made from a piece of endangered tropical hardwood? You might find the answers to your questions at the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Forensic Lab in Ashland, Oregon, the only one like it in the world.

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