J.R. and Pat aren't the only ones doing conservation work on the Barrens Topminnow as well. There is a Prof here with no less than two grad students per year for the past several years working on toppminnow research. They also have them in a breeding stock-in-one of the USFWS national hatcheries in TN. They have been doing reintroductions, habitat research and modeling, tons of predator prey and mortality work with the mosquito fish, elastomer recapture. you name it and pretty much every aspect of ecology and conservation is being covered. This goes right back to all this myth of "science" we have been talking about. While population augmentation is great, if you dont back it up with alot of hard science especially things that could be critical to the success of the population augmentation you are just throwing resources into the wind. That's always what I've equated TNC to as well....they take the first step in-in-least aquiring it, sometimes they take the second step in some
baseline research....but it wasn't part of their mission to do the rest. Yeah it is a stop gap solution, but something is better than nothing.
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<DIV>J.R. and Pat aren't the only ones doing conservation work on the Barrens Topminnow as well. There is a Prof here with no less than two grad students per year for the past several years working on toppminnow research. They also have them in a breeding stock-in-one of the USFWS national hatcheries in TN. They have been doing reintroductions, habitat research and modeling, tons of predator prey and mortality work with the mosquito fish, elastomer recapture. you name it and pretty much every aspect of ecology and conservation is being covered. This goes right back to all this myth of "science" we have been talking about. While population augmentation is great, if you dont back it up with alot of hard science especially things that could be critical to the success of the population augmentation you are just throwing resources into the wind. That's always what I've equated TNC to as well....they take the first step in at
least aquiring it, sometimes they take the second step in some baseline research....but it wasn't part of their mission to do the rest. Yeah it is a stop gap solution, but something is better than nothing.<BR>
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