I hate to say it, given how I love my job, but it has made me realize that work is pretty damned low on the totem pole of ranked priorities. In the last few weeks though, it has given me some time to think about life priorities. Hence the stressful few weeks, dealing with budget cuts, and the stress of having to re-orient staff and resources….”re-orient” being the most friendly way to say it. No matter…with the word “climate” in my funding source and appearing occasionally in my published work, it’s work with a big red bullseye target in this political environment. My work focuses on landscape change and trying to anticipate what future landscapes will look like, and while it necessarily focuses on potential impacts of climate change, that’s not the major focus. The stress comes from being a scientist and having all of my funding coming from federal programs that happen to have the word “climate” in their name. It’s been a rather stressful last few weeks, thus the general lack of birding, or blogging about birding. Yeah, it’s been 4 weeks since a blog post. Photos of all the geologic goodies are at the bottom of this post. The eroding bluffs reveal their treasures contained within, with the surrounding ravines and flatlands literally covered with agates, petrified wood, and other geologic goodies. A typical view of our newly discovered geologic nirvana, near Kadoka, South Dakota.
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