SHAHEEN STATEMENT ON USDA PLANS TO CLOSE FACILITIES AT NEW HAMPSHIRE'S NEARLY 100-YEAR-OLD BARTLETT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST, LEAVING HUBBARD BROOK'S FUTURE AT RISK

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a Senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies (Ag-FDA) Subcommittee, released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service (https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/reorganization), including plans to close facilities at New Hampshire's Bartlett Experimental Forest and "further evaluate" Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest:

"New Hampshire's experimental forests conduct long-running research that not only serves our state, but also rural communit...