Steven Strauss, a professor of forest biotechnology at Oregon State University, stated that “biotech trees, in my view, are a very powerful tool. It’s something that we’d like to have available, but it’s something that we’d like to use properly.”
Other environmentalist organizations have a more cautious approach to the idea. “We think there’s been a tendency to introduce these things before they have actually identified all the potential problems,” said John Bennet, the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada.