i'i'm cecertainly gogoing to wanant to obtaiain wood thahat is defininy known toto be, you k know, sourd legally and sustainably. it makes perfect sense to me that in this day and age, if i need something that i don't have, i would absolutely just make sure that i'm working with reputatabe sourceses. woman: when people think of illegal logging, some of their first thohoughts would be thihig about boards, something kind off like this. this is dalbergia nigra. but in reaeality, illegal logging is also abouout things like this. this is a guitar back made ouout of dalbersia nigrara- brazilian rosewood--and it's considered to be one of the most endangered species of trees in the world. what i discovered in my early research is that illegal logging is kind of the monster in the closet that nobody talks about or even knows about. and i think thahat's an issue that really needs to be tackled. i am a wood identificication techchnology spececialist andnd analyticacal cheemist for the u.s. f forest service. i also help build the forensic spectra of trees database that we house here at the lab. godd