"Our BLM partners were finding out at the same moment,"
"I think they shed as many tears as I did."
"over the course of maybe an hour and a half"
On Sept. 23, Emily Rees was planting thousands of New Mexico vervain seedlings on the plateau above the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos when she received a phone call telling her to stop. Two hundred miles south, Tino Mendietta was collecting coneflower seeds on Bureau of Land Management land near Roswell when his phone lit up with the same news. The Institute for Applied Ecology received 30 federal award cancellation notices from agencies overseen by the Department of the Interior. The cancellations terminated federal grants immediately, forcing field crews to halt collection and return to offices to process data. Proposed Interior Department cuts include more than 2,000 jobs and billions in reduced climate-related funding. Funding reductions have trickled down to conservation organizations, altered relationships with federal partners, restricted conservation work and halted partnerships with private growers. The Institute for Applied Ecology is one of at least six Western conservation groups experiencing such cuts.
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