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Subject: Sign-on opportunity for letter in support of USDA Beltsville Bee Lab

 

Hi folks,

As many of you know, USDA has opened a public comment period on the proposal to relocate approximately 2,600 Washington-based positions to five regional hubs. These relocations would directly impact the USDA Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory. It is the opinion of many U.S. honey bee scientists and beekeeping industry leaders that relocation of the USDA Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory would likely result in immediate and long-term harm to the U.S. beekeeping industry.

 

We've organized a letter urging Secretary Rollins and Deputy Secretary Vaden to reconsider the proposed relocation of the USDA Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VbTtU1tH4MxiRdwpK4J6U4LT-ie9LNFeNCYd14nnOwc/edit?usp=sharing

 

If you would like to add your signature to this letter, please add our name, title, and affiliation to this sheet by midnight on Monday, August 25thhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12K6r2FFA5upqLztoFauHRwbInqFcp5INf6PXhSlhujA/edit?usp=sharing 

 

We also recommend submitting individual comments during the public comment period, which ends on Tuesday, August 26th.

 

Thank you and please forward to anyone in your networks who may be interested

Scott

 

 

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Scott McArt (he/him)
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Entomology
4132 Comstock Hall

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University

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Lab website: blogs.cornell.edu/mcartlab 
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Hongmei Li-Byarlay

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Hi all,

You are also welcome to leave thank-you notes for the USDA Beltsville Bee Lab (Jay and Judy) on Kudoboard! The intention is to support them and keep them strong.

The link is here:

Feel free to share it with others as well.
Thank you!


With immense gratitude and respect,

Hongmei

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Hongmei Li-Byarlay | 李红梅, Ph.D., F.R.E.S. (she/her/hers) 

Research Associate Professor of Genomics &Entomology, Principal Investigator of CSU Bee Research Lab,

Central State University, 1400 Brush Row Road, Wilberforce, Ohio 45384. 1890 LAND-GRANT INSTITUTION 

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