WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies (Ag-FDA), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined a letter with over 30 of their Senate colleagues to the U.S. Department of Agriculture raising strong concerns about the reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service. The Senators argue that the reckless reorganization will shutter research facilities across the country and at New Hampshire's Bartlett Experimental Forest, which has hosted nearly 100 years of critical research, and risk the future of other facilities, including at Hubbard Broo...