Senators Kelly and Sinema Introduce Legislation to Support UArizona’s College of Veterinary Sciences

Last week Senator Mark Kelly introduced the Arizona Experiment Station Land Conveyance Act, co-sponsored by Senator Kyrsten Sinema, that would transfer Forest Service land to the University of Arizona in an effort to ensure that the V-V Ranch (pronounced “V Bar V”), a livestock research ranch operated by the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, can continue its important educational mission. Federal Relations has worked with Congress for several years to develop the legislation necessary to allow the UArizona to build capacity at V-V to care for the livestock and scale up infrastructure on the site, and this legislation is a critical step to completing that work.

"The University of Arizona’s Veterinary Sciences program is like no other in the nation, and I am committed to helping its students receive the most rigorous and innovative education possible,” said Senator Kelly. “V Bar V Ranch not only provides unparalleled opportunities for students to gain hands-on practice and research working with cattle, range management, and Arizona wildlife, but also prepares students for a future in clinical animal medicine. That’s important not just for these students, but for the Arizona farmers and ranchers they will be serving as well.”

“Advancing this land transfer provides certainty for the University of Arizona’s new College of Veterinary Sciences and supports its mission training the next generation of veterinarians in our state,” said Senator Sinema.