During this comment period: "Submissions to the PPQ electronic discussion on evaluating imported plants for invasive potential. November 27, 2006 - February 28, 2007" there were many diverse and excellent comments made by a wide range of parties, all of them sympathetic to our cause more or less. The one exception was the Nature Conservancy, which took a contrasting view regarding imported plants. My recollection was that while they did not take up an entirely negative position, they would favor Australian-style hyper-regulation regarding imports of new plants. Unfortunately this comment forum, part of the public record, is not available on line due to some technical problems apparently. I have a pdf copy I will be happy to email to anyone on request. My attempts to forward the link to this list were unsuccessful. Dylan Hannon