The link to Forest Genetics has been problematic, now it is reasonable updated at

 I have started (from the new millennium) to make information of my recent articles including links to relevant files available at

Hopefully it will be no long delay between a study is out and that title and abstract is available. Sometimes you can get the paper in full if I think there are no copy-right problems. In several of these papers I make suggestions I think are relevant for tree breeding. Sometimes there are links to programs, which illustrate features, which are mentioned in the article and sometimes offer a tool for direct implementation.

The average life of URLs is rather short, a rather high proportion of links does not work after some years. This may depend on decisions on different levels. I do not know exactly what should be done. If someone (like me) offers webpages with links, I think it is a good idea to check and update links at list once a year. Avoid having many links unless you feel that you are in the position to check them sometimes. It is doubtful to publish links in journals. If this is done it seems urgent to keep some sort of life in the link some years after publishing. Avoid placing updates of the same information on new URLs (e.g. avoid changing the link to your homepage). And tell your web-responsible that you do not like to get the address to the websites which concerns you changed and if this is done you want the one using the old URL to get hints on where to find the new if the outdated is entered.

Dean

The faculty of forestry will (perhaps) elect new dean after Kaj Rosén at Aug 29.

Info: Laura Parducci, tel. 090-786 58 81

The Department of Forest Genetics is arranging a symposium on forest genetics on 22 November this year in Uppsala, to mark the retirement of Professor Gösta Eriksson and Docent Inger Ekberg after more than 35 years of association with the Department. About ten presentations will be given by internationally renowned forest geneticists, including Professor Gene Namkoong and Professor Francis Yeh. The symposium will conclude with a dinner for all attending the symposium. Interested should let Alena Jonsson know!

The proceedings from 1999 SNS meeting in Uppsala is now available from the Department of Forest Genetics, Uppsala (Kenneth Lundkvist is editor).

Sedan lite jag noterat om det psykologiska

In a recent email on FORESTGEN Howard Kriebel warned us for giving the site of GMO away in emails as they are not safe enough

Browsing on

I found this one (there is much other interesting information on that site!).

 "Vandals Hit B.C. Research and Saanich Seed Orchards"

In October 1999, vandals destroyed important trees at a

biotechnology institute on Vancouver's University of British

Columbia (UBC) campus and a Vancouver Island seed orchard.

The group claiming responsibility for these acts apparently

thought that these trees were genetically modified.

Several hundred research trees in an open compound at B.C.

Research Institute on the UBC campus were damaged or

destroyed on October 27, 1999, causing major setbacks in

several research projects. Some of the trees were part of a

Ministry of Forests (MOF) study comparing the growth and

survival of Douglas-fir and western hemlock seed from different

geographic sources around the province.

Western Forest Products' Saanich Forestry Centre was

attacked on October 31, 1999, resulting in an estimated

$250,000 of damage to gene archives and seed orchards of

Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and yellow-cedar. This

vandalism may delay Western's reforestation efforts in hemlock

by as much as seven years.

More recently, on March 27, 2000, vandals damaged or

destroyed an estimated 1600 young trees at the MOF Saanich

Seed Orchard. T ..."