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UVM forestry faculty warns cuts to U.S. Forest Service research could close sites, jeopardize long-term data
Summary
A University of Vermont forestry faculty member told the committee on May 12 that a March 31 plan to review 57 of 77 U.S. Forest Service research sites, coupled with proposed zero funding for the USFS research branch, threatens long-term datasets, local cooperative projects and staffing at the Burlington lab.
A University of Vermont forestry faculty member told the Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry committee on May 12, 2026, that proposed reductions to U.S. Forest Service research capacity could shutter experimental forests and research stations, jeopardizing decades of long-term datasets and local cooperative projects.
The professor, who identified himself as a member of UVM’s forestry faculty and a liaison to Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, said the administration’s proposal to zero out funding for the Forest Service’s research and development branch and the March 31 announcement to review and possibly close 57 of the agency’s 77 research sites would represent a major loss of scientific capacity. “The research and…
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