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   KelsoChris | Aug 01, 2007 08:06pm | #1

   This is an interesting article, I am for personal reasons leary of Monsanto's involvemment here but, oh well.  I can see some potential for disaster as well as windfall here.  I can see the genetic varieties pollenating with the natural trees and wiping out the strains that have proven reliable historically.  I can also see several years down the road somebody cutting a stand of genetically engeneered trees and having them go to wrong end use.  Picture some craftsman wanting to steam bend and veneer poplar that gets a batch of lignen reduced lumber, not good.  THe scary part is that we may not know of any real  negative impact for generations.