Bo, KTA,LGSTO? Whats that stand for?

In New Brunswick there are people who poach specific types of trees off Provincial land and other people's woodlots.In recent years Hemlok Tippers, people who collect the end tips of newgrowth Hemlok branchs as a medical element has been discovered in it that is cancer killing.Generally these people do little damage to property, but they can severly stunt trees if they remove too many branch ends.What they poach benefits humanity but they profit from stealing this from others, so are no better than any other poacher in my opinion.
Starting 15 years ago N.B. has been suffering a "Green Gold Rush" when the world market for Bird Eye Maple exploded.B.E.M is a variety of Rough Bark Maple tree that is suspeptable to a certain disease that causes small wartlike growths throughout the wood of the tree.When produced into lumber these warts look like "bird eyes" in shape and no two logs will have the same pattern, size or amount of 'eyes.If the tree catches the disease early in its life then the "eyes" will be larger in size and go deeper towards the truck core, raising the value of the log dramatically.
B.E.M, is used in high quality musical instruments and furniture and also in the trimwork in high end automobiles(Bentley and Royal's Royce).
To find out if a tree was infected with the disease, poachers take a hatchet and remove a 1foot square section of tree bark, looking for the telltale dimples in the wood.If it was healthy tree they would move to another suspected tree.
Once an infected tree was found it would be cut down then a slab or "cookie" was removed from the butt end. This cookie would be split with an axe to determine how deep the infection or 'eyes went.If the tree only caught the disease in last few years the eyes would only go in for a few inches or less into the wood, and many times poachers would leave the downed tree not wanting to waste time and effort on a lower value log.But if the tree was throughly infected, one 14' long 25"-30"diameter log could be worth up to $8000.Sometimes up to a dozen prime trees can be found in 1 small area.
For a while you couldnt find a 4x4 junker anywhere because poachers would buy anything that was 4x4 and was in running condition.That way if they would get caught by Wardens they were only out a $200 scrapyard truck and an old $30 chainsaw they probally bought at a fleamarket.
These woodpoachers cause damage to woodlots,quite often leaving multiple downed trees before finding one suitable for market.Huge areas of hardwoods were weakened by the practice of removing tree bark, allowing pests and disease to run rampant.Some Sugarbush owners(maple syrop producers) suffer damages because some extra dumb poachers cant tell a Sugar Maple from a Rough Barked Maple.

$400 a pound? Can you train a dog to find it?

Thanks seadog, I never woulda thought of that.

I have the same sentiment for any poacher, KTA, LGSTO. Well maybe not that extreme, but a few years of making big rocks into little rocks, sound really good when I hear of stuff like this.