Welch Presses Forest Service Chief on How U.S. Forest Service Reorganization Plan Endangers Vermont’s Forests

This press release from Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) was published on 2026-06-02 and titled "Welch Presses Forest Service Chief on How U.S. Forest Service Reorganization Plan Endangers Vermont’s Forests".

Welch Presses Forest Service Chief on How U.S. Forest Service Reorganization Plan Endangers Vermont’s Forests

Welch: “I urge you to take into account the impact locally, not just the impact financially: to save a dollar, you may lose a forest.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology, today pressed Tom Schultz, Chief of the Forest Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), about how the U.S. Forest [ ]