Crime in the forest Medicinal value of yew bark makes it target of poachers

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 5, 1991| Author: Jeff Barnard, Associated Press | Copyright information

OAKRIDGE, Ore. -- Rangers in the Northwest's national forests are chasing a new kind of poacher: one with a drawknife who strips bark from Pacific yew trees to cash in on demand for a new cancer-fighting drug.

"It's a damn waste," said Jim Simonson, yew coordinator in the Willamette National Forest. He looked out over the naked white trunks of 62 yews that were illegally stripped of their bark. The girdling kills the trees.

The bark is the primary source of a drug called taxol, ...

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