The Trump administration is planning to close the Forest Service's Big Island research facilities in Hawaii—the only labs in the Pacific equipped to develop biocontrol solutions for invasive species and diseases like the fungal pathogen killing ʻōhiʻa trees. These labs have spent 20 years building relationships with local conservation groups and have pending biocontrol projects (like a Mexican butterfly to combat invasive miconia) that cannot be replicated elsewhere or transferred if the facility closes. The broader restructuring targets 57 of 77 Forest Service research stations nationwide, potentially disrupting decades of forest-health and wildfire-readiness work across the country.