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<div style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;">As a federally managed Experimental Forest, Hubbard Brook has been in a holding pattern during the budget deliberations. Today Hubbard Brook's Forest Service headquarters was locked, and non-exempt federal employees were not permitted to work. Our Forest Service partners do not idle well; sitting on their hands is harder than punching through frozen streams in subzero temperatures to collect water samples. After decades of diligent monitoring, taking their fingers off the pulse of the ecosystem is difficult to do. <br/> </span><br/></div>
<div style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;">As the non-profit arm of the Hubbard Brook enterprise, our hands at the Foundation are not tied, and we are free to lend them in support of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study. HBRF staff can work and communicate through the political ferment, and our facilities are available to support our academic partners. The HBRF would not exist without engaged and loyal donors who believe in the power of science to inform environmental decision-making. </span><br/></div>
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<div style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;">We are optimistic that our Forest Service partners will soon be permitted to switch their phones and computers back on as they return to business as usual. Thank you for enabling us to support Hubbard Brook through this period of upheaval in a political system that has fallen out of equilibrium. With your help, we will be here through and beyond the next budget deadline, working in support of a stable Hubbard Brook.</span></div>
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