Plant Shipment restrictions?
James Waddick (Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:23:34 PST)

From the New York Times - Dec 23, 2004

Millions of Plants Caught in Dragnet for Oak Killer
By BRADFORD McKEE

Published: December 23, 2004

JUST in time to complicate spring planting, the federal government is
preparing to issue what agriculture officials call the most sweeping
restrictions on the shipment of nursery plants ever undertaken in the
United States, to try to prevent the spread of a virulent disease
that has killed tens of thousands of oaks and other species along the
West Coast.

The restrictions, expected to be issued in early January, will
affect millions of plants grown in California, Oregon and Washington,
about one-third of the country's nursery plant supply. They will
require inspection, sampling and possibly testing of all plants that
could be hosts to the pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of
sudden oak death syndrome, before shipment across state lines. The
disease has been spotted in 22 states.

Full article at:
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/…
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