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Article: "FRANKENTREES"?(vandalism incidents protest experimental genetic engineering on trees)(Brief Article)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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An anonymous group of environmental activists chopped down or girdled nearly a thousand cottonwoods and aspens at Oregon State University this spring, hoping to stop experimental genetic engineering on the trees.
Then in May, the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture went up in flames, destroying laboratories, classrooms, and years of research. Some professors suspect "eco-terrorists" started the blaze. A small part of the center's work involves genetic engineering of trees.
After the Oregon incident, the culprits said in an open letter. "The test plots of the Populus genus trees... were independently assessed and found to be a ...