super eucalpts are genetically modified

The ArborGen trees are to be planted in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, in Alabama and Mississippi and in Georgia and Louisiana. Rockwood said they can grow about 25 feet per year and be ready to harvest in less than three years.

ArborGen and paper companies, got U.S. Department of Agriculture approval last month for field trials involving as many as 250,000 trees planted in the near future. Much smaller lots of the genetically altered trees have been growing in some of the states for years.