Trump's NOAA cuts imperil Wells Reserve and 29 other estuary reserves

In yesterday's Portland Press Herald, I had a follow-up on Tuesday's report on President Trump's proposal to dramatically cut funding to NOAA, including killing the 50-year old Sea Grant program entirely.

The new story reveals that the NOAA cuts also imperil Maine's popular Wells Reserve at Laudhom Farm, the Great Bay reserve across the border in southern New Hampshire, and 27 other National Estuarine Research Reserves, which would see their federal funding completely eliminated.

In related stories, I've previously reported on how Trump's "2-for-1" regulatory reform order is expected to paralyze big picture fisheries management, and how an early plan to eliminate NASA satellite monitoring of Earth would upend Maine-based research into the changing climate.