Thursday morning roundup

admin//August 9, 2007//

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• Horseshoe Bend resident Karen Rudolph is featured in a Forbes.com/Associated Press article for being the only wildlife DNA specialist in Idaho. She helps crack cases using evidence from various animal-related crimes – such as poaching – using delicate, high-tech equipment in a laboratory setting. She is quoted as saying, “Idaho poachers, until recently, were kind of your average Joe Bad Guy out in the woods doing small-fry things. But now many of them literally hunt every day and night – looking for antlers to sell so some rich guy in Jackson Hole can have an antler chandelier, or ingredients to make some strange alternative medicine … It’s become commercial.”

• Hoku Materials Inc. awarded a contract to Stone & Webster Inc. for engineering and construction management services for Hoku’s planned 2,000 metric ton per year polysilicon manufacturing plant in Pocatello.

• Talisker Investment Group of Boise won a contract to manage up to $100 million worth of assets for USA Wealth Management, a Michigan-based firm.