Some of the research at NOAA is, you know, on the cutting edge of helping us understand wildfires and how they spread and how to best contain them. NOAA's a huge part of being able to track this, this, this worsening drought we've been dealing with for the last 20 years. The question we ask day in and day out, why these cuts? At the CDC in Fort Collins, they're doing research there in terms of vector diseases like Lyme disease … (51:04–51:12)
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Asserts that NOAA plays a significant role in tracking a 20-year worsening drought.
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