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Nature 411, 509 (31 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35079246

Arson hampers conservation work

Rex Dalton

A plant research facility at the University of Washington was severely damaged by fire last week, in what appears to be one in a series of destructive attacks by militant environmental activists.The university's Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, where ecologists, botanists and molecular biologists study biodiversity and plant genetics, suffered damage estimated at $3 million in the incident on 21 May.