but in reaeality, illegal logging is also abouout things like this. this is a guitar babk made e out of dalbersia nigigra- 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 t that's an issue that really needs to be tackled. i am a wood identifification tetechnology spspecialist a and analytitical chchemist fofor the u.s.. forest service. i also help build the foforensic spectra of trees database that we house here at the lab. goddard: our laboratory is the only full-serervice crime lab fr wildlife in the world. trees as a forest represent a habitat. when criminals go in and clear-cut a forest, they not only take down trees, but the animals that live in that habitat may go to extinction. lilike any other policece crime, wewe examine evidence a and, ina triaiangular fashion, we a attet to link suspspect, victim, and crime scene with that evidence