The White House is expected to ask Congress to wipe out the entire biological research program at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its upcoming 2026 budget request, according to an internal email seen by Science. This year, USGS – a $1.6 billion research agency within the Department of the Interior – will spend $307 million on its Ecosystems Mission Area. The research informs conservation of endangered species, state management of game and other wildlife, responses to wildfire and sea level rise, and other areas.

"We’re deeply worried," says Ed Arnett, CEO of the nonprofit Wildlife Society and an adjunct wildlife biologist at Colorado State University. "It would be devastating to blow this up" and "a key loss of science capacity."

The email, sent yesterday by Anne Kinsinger, associate director of ecosystems at USGS, notified colleagues that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ordered the agency to design a plan to slow and then cease all activities in its Ecosystems Mission Area in the next fiscal year, which begins in October. That plan is due to OMB within 3 months.

 
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