Federal employment and budget turmoil affects monitoring of Alaska’s Barry Arm landslide

Federal employment and budget turmoil affects monitoring of Alaska’s Barry Arm landslide

Barry Arm, Barry Glacier and Cascade Glacier are seen in May 2020. Glacial retreat has destabilized the rocky slope. The slope is moving gradually, but it could collapse in a large landslide, causing a dangerous tsunami. (Photo by Christian Zimmerman/U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center)The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers and funding restrictions has affected the monitoring of a landslide-prone slope that could cre…