WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, led eight of her colleagues from Washington state in sending a letter (https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/06172026_usda_usfs_wildfire_lab_letter.pdf) to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins opposing the proposed closure of the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Wenatchee and the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory in Seattle, both of which conduct crucial science for wildfire prevention and forecasting.
"Now is not the time to shutter federal labs that support smoke ...