Shooting Incident Reconstruction Book

I thought this was a brilliantly structured book looking at the work of the Wildlife Forensics Lab in Ashland, Oregon. It uses three specific case studies to explore different facets of wildlife law and related crimes (illegal hunting and Indigenous hunting rights, trade for traditional Chinese medicine, and trade in animal parts as cultural objects), and the many services the lab provides that supported each case from necropsy and gross anatomy to molecular analysis to species identification from specimens. Each case study is a complete narrative that places the lab's work in the full context of the global wildlife issues and the surrounding undercover investigations and legal proceedings. This must have taken an extraordinary amount of work to compile and write. It goes into a LOT of detail for each case. While I would have expected this to be mind-numbing, it was actually fascinating and I am so glad the author decided to approach it this way. I'd highly recommend it to any of the more geeky animal people who really want to dive into what goes into investigating and prosecuting wildlife crime.