Conservation Minnesota hosts 11 AmeriCorps Climate Impact Corps members across the state. Due to 'changes in federal priorities,' the program is ending by July, according to the organization.
Employees at the freshwater lab were told they could leave their jobs or apply for a limited number of new jobs elsewhere in the EPA, and funding for an estimated 25 early-career researchers ended.
At virtual meetings Tuesday, employees were told to focus on wrapping up current projects and to download personnel files from their work computers, two people who attended the meetings said.
The USDA's American Rescue Plan Act's Technical Assistance Investment Program funded two of the five contracted years of emerging farmer programming for underserved communities.
