Re: Cost of ATBI
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:35:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Elizabeth L. Skillen" <skillen@pick.uga.edu$gt; To: John Pickering <pick@pick.uga.edu$gt; Subject: Re: Cost of ATBI Pick, I see you have ignited the debate. I think you are trying to be realistic about how much it will cost us to keep the taxonomists focused on the Smokies and not elsewhere, in your usual subtle manner. I agree we should have open debate about it. My only hope is that the media doesn't pick up on the $250 million figure and attach it to some mundane comment contrasting the relative importance of knowing how many midges there are in the Smokies to reducing school violence nationwide. They probably will. At least we aren't kidding ourselves about the volunteer potential of the majority of taxonomists anymore. As Dan Janzen said at the beginning: No taxonomists, no ATBI. Eli ****************************************************************************** Elizabeth L. Skillen 711 Biological Sciences Building Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Phone: 706-542-1388 e-mail: skillen@discoverlife.org ******************************************************************************
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