Comment Letters Regarding the Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriation for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Emerging Plant Pests

In early April 2009, on behalf of 21 leading organizations in the fields of conservation, forestry, and horticulture, comment letters were sent regarding the Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriation for the USDA Forest Service to:

• House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
• Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

The following organizations supported these letters:

• Alliance for Community Trees
• American Forest Foundation
• City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation Bureau of Forestry
• City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works, Forestry Division
• Davey Institute
• International Maple Syrup Institute
• National Association of State Foresters
• Natural Biodiversity
• The Nature Conservancy
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• North American Maple Syrup Council, Inc.
• Partnership for Saving Threatened Forests
• The Pennsylvania Game Commission
• Purdue University, Department of Entomology
• Society of Municipal Arborists
• The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• University of Georgia, Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health