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<div style="text-align:center;" align="center">And Our Resources for Understanding and Protecting Forests Are at Risk </div>
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<div>Ian Halm, Hubbard Brook Site Manager (center), on a recent fire-fighting assignment for the Forest Service</div>
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<div style="text-align:left;" align="left">With an increasing majority of Forest Service funding dedicated to fire suppression, drastic cuts for research threaten to destabilize experimental forests. </div>
<div style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><br />The real-world impacts are playing out at Hubbard Brook. Ian Halm is pulled away from his leadership role as Hubbard Brook's Site Manager to fight fires across the country for weeks every year. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Hubbard Brook researchers are working creatively to streamline data collection in response to <span>reduced staffing under the current hiring freeze.</span><span> </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Whether fighting fires or conducting cutting-edge ecosystem science, the people of Hubbard Brook are on the front lines, working to understand and protect our forests under increasing budget pressures. </span></div>
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