DOGE targets two Santa Barbara waterfront leases for termination
Amid all the tumult surrounding major cuts proposed by the Trump administration targeting the National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are a couple of properties NOAA currently leases from the City of Santa Barbara. … The Harbor Way offices are occupied by two longtime research employees. One focuses on efforts to bring Santa Barbara’s steelhead trout population — a federally endangered species ― back from the brink of extinction; the other has been more focused on efforts to reduce the number of boat strikes on whales in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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