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September 2, 2014

Money vs. jail: Poaching ginseng lucrative, risky

  • As demand from Asia pushes prices to $900 a pound so many people are hunting ginseng that the plant's survival is in doubt.
    • By MITCH WEISS
    Associated Press

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Broke and down on his luck, Billy Joe Hurley turned to the only way he knew how to make a living: poaching ginseng.

    But after his latest in a long string of arrests, federal prosecutors had enough.


     
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