<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">
<div id="AOLMsgPart_1.2_58dc6957-fb2e-4c3c-9c5f-58a999760344">
<font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">
<div id="AOLMsgPart_1.2_a5032f83-8f96-4850-9d6e-e51cb25bcba5">
<font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div style="font-size: small;">
<div style="clear: both;">The day after the Federal Register notice of the GE cbg deregulation, the two U.S. Senators for Oregon urged the Secretary of Agriculture to reconsider (1/19/2017 press release attached).</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><br>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;">The same day as the USDA/APHIS website deregulation notice (1/17/2017), the Center for Biological Diversity announced with the Center for Food Safety, that they are considering a lawsuit (see attached).</div>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="font-size: small;"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There was a legal battle through several levels of the Courts, over several years, after initial deregulation of glyphosate-resistant alfalfa. </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">See at link: </font><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Co._v._Geertson_Seed_Farms" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Monsanto_Co._v._Geertson_Seed_<wbr>Farms</a></div>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</font><span style="font-size: small;"></span>
<div style="font-size: small; clear: both;">
<div style="clear: both;"><br>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;">Josh, I've not scrutinized the APHIS Record of Decision, but I don't think APHIS <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;">"same as counterpart" implies natural. T</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;">hey're saying putting in the GE trait of glyphosate resistance, the transgene construct, didn't alter the <i>Agrostis stolonifera </i>in any other way. To me, natural is a whole different ball game! Cbg is still an introduced widely naturalized and sometimes invasive species, and the GE cbg had already been found to have hybridized with the also introduced (etc. ditto) <i>Agrostis gigantea</i> and <i>Polypogon monspeliensis</i> in central Oregon.</span></div>
<div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="clear: both;"><br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="font-size: small; clear: both;"><font color="black"><font color="black"><font color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bruce MacBryde<br>
BioConservation Support<br>
Drake, C</font><font color="black"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">olorado</font></font></font></font></div>
<div style="clear:both"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: josh wilson <joshwilson.smg@gmail.com><br>
To: afrates <afrates@addsuminc.com><br>
Cc: native-plants <native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org><br>
Sent: Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 10:53 am<br>
Subject: Re: [PCA] Fwd: [APWG] Article/News: GMO Creeping Bentgrass that Escaped Defies Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - The Oregonian, Jan. 8th, 2017<br>
<br>
<div id="AOLMsgPart_1.2_9fd06533-6370-4a5f-ab06-33b8e35a2aed">
<div class="aolReplacedBody">
<div dir="ltr">I do not think an appeal is possible. Creeping Bentgrass is now considered "same as counterpart" and natural. However, leaving comments on this attached link might help future recklessness: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAAPHIS/bulletins/1812e6c?reqfrom=share</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">__________________<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Is an appeal possible?<br>
<br>
Tony Frates/UNPS<br>
<br>
________________<br>
<br>
Quoting josh wilson <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">joshwilson.smg@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sorry to say that it has become deregulated;</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://content.govdelivery.co<wbr>m/accounts/USDAAPHIS/bulletins<wbr>/180ed2b?reqfrom=share</a><br>
<br>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">______________________</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Jan 12, 2017 11:50 AM, "Lindsey Riibe" <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">riibe.lindsey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
According to the attached 12/8/2016 *Capital Press Ag* news article, the<br>
decision to deregulate the genetically engineered glyphosate-resistant<br>
creeping bentgrass will be made by the USDA Secretary of Agriculture after<br>
the close of the final public comment period, which was Monday.<br>
<br>
Attached are several of many research papers re aspects of the expanding<br>
problem of transgenic *Agrostis* and hybrids with *Polypogon* getting<br>
into various landscapes and habitats.<br>
<br>
Bruce MacBryde, PhD<br>
BioConservation Support<br>
Drake, Colorado<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Lindsey Riibe <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">riibe.lindsey@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Alien Plant Working Group <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">apwg@lists.plantconservation.<wbr>org</a>><br>
Sent: Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 9:16 am<br>
Subject: [APWG] Article/News: GMO Creeping Bentgrass that Escaped Defies<br>
Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - The Oregonian, Jan. 8th, 2017<br>
<br>
[image: The_Oregonian.jpg]<br>
<br>
Sunday January 8, 2017<br>
<br>
GMO grass that 'escaped' defies eradication, divides grass seed industry<br>
<br>
Article attached as file. And, here is the link:<br>
<br>
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.oregonlive.com/busi<wbr>ness/index.ssf/2017/01/grass_s</a><br>
eed_industry_fearful_ab.html<br>
<br>
______________________________<wbr>_____________<br>
<br>
</blockquote></blockquote>
<br>
______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
_________________________________________________<br>
native-plants mailing list<br>
native-<a>plants@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>
<a target="_blank">http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/native-plants_lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>
<br>
Disclaimer<br>
Posts on this list reflect only the opinion of the individual who is posting the message; they are not official opinions or positions of the Plant Conservation Alliance.<br>
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to native-plants-<a>request@lists.plantconservation.org</a> with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.</div>
</font>
</div>
</div>
</font>
</div>
</div>
</font>