Twin Peaks Meeting
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:17:39 -0400
To: Keith_Langdon@nps.gov, becky_nichols@nps.gov, Chuck_Parker@nps.gov
From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: Friday 2:00-5:00
Cc: lowe@opie.bgsu.edu, jmorse@clemson.edu, msharkey@byron.ca.uky.edu,
skillen@pick.uga.edu, pswhite@unc.edu, wilson.don@nmnh.si.edu
Becky, Chuck & Keith,
Confirming our meeting on Friday, 2:00-5:00 at Twin Peaks.
Our agenda is to discuss and outline a modest plan for this year's field
and sorting activities. We need to come up with an overall plan or else we
are going to end up with 10,000 independent, disjunct studies.
Unfortunately, Mike Sharkey in South America until 3 February. The
responses that he has forwarded to me from the taxonomists are all over the
place, ranging from too-much-work-&-I don't-want-to-coordinate, to
please-pay-me-$45/hour-and-I'll-work-for-you, to
wildly-enthusiastic-and-helpful. Generally, I feel most of the taxonomy
teams need more time and prompting to get back to us. I suggest that we do
triage and build a cohesive program around our strongest supporters. For
this year, spreading our resources evenly across all taxonomic groups might
be a big mistake. Let's come up with a draft plan by consensus amongst
ourselves and then bounce it around with the locals (John Morse, Mike
Sharkey, Eli Skillen, Peter White, ...) before sending it further afield
(Rex Lowe, Norm Johnson, Don Wilson, ...). Among other things on Friday,
we should set a date in which we could meet with the locals -- some
afternoon between 8 - 12 February? Input anyone?
Cheers,
Pick
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