President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

National President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn June 12, 202612:01 AM ET Kirk Siegler Wildfire and smoke maps like this one on the federal government's fire.airnow.gov website were developed in part from research funded by the U.S. Forest Service fire.airnow.gov hide caption toggle caption fire.airnow.gov SEATTLE — Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington. So as President Trump has already cancelled or suspended about a quarter of all funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes for Health, the atmosphere on this leafy Seattle campus is tense.

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