1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I want to express serious concern about the proposed closure of U.S. Forest Service forestry research laboratories, including the Irvine Forestry Sciences Lab. These labs are essential to long-term forest science and management. They support decades of continuous ecological research, some sites with nearly a cen tury of repeated measurements, and provide irreplaceable data on how our forests are changing over time. For example, at the Kane Experimental Forest, weekly precipitation chemistry data has been collected every Tuesday since 1978 through the National Acid P recipitation Assessment Program. If these programs are disrupted, that kind of continuous record cannot be replaced, and its scientific value is permanen tly weakened. without losing critical scientific knowledge. ontinued funding for long-term forest research and data collection. I’m asking you to oppose the closure of these labs and to support c Once these systems are disrupted, they cannot simply be restarted