No Funds Approved for Nature Quest
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:35:43 -0400
To: cgaasch@randomc.com, kesco@arches.uga.edu, spruance@infinet.com,
lorelei@teleport.com, bwiegman@unity.ncsu.edu
From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: No funds approved for Nature Quest
Cc: jody@discoverlife.org, Keith_Langdon@nps.gov, jmorse@clemson.edu,
msharkey@byron.ca.uky.edu, cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov, pswhite@unc.edu
Christi, Brian, Eric, Kitty, & Lorelei,
Please do not kill the messenger. Our Executive Committee tabled my
request for funds to be appropriated for the Nature Quest. Sorry. I
tried.
The issue of funding you may be raised again during the March meeting of
the Executive Committee. However, I'll be in Panama and will not be able
to be your advocate. I'm hoping that Peter White will contact you and
interface your efforts with the Executive Committee. Alternately, Keith
Langdon or Jody may be able to be more effective than I.
The Executive Committee is concerned that we cannot handle a large Nature
Quest this first year and want to keep it manageable. Kitty, you're off
the hook regarding ants. There is very little support for including them.
I now recommend that we restrict our efforts with ants to the pilots with
our teachers in Georgia.
Again, sorry for the disappointment. I very much value what you all are
doing and hope that this doesn't dampen your enthusiasm too much.
On the positive side, $16,000 will be made available to four Taxonomy
Teams, including Diptera and Fungi, and $8,000, to equip a new
training/sorting/processing/data center at Cosby.
Cheers,
Pick
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