Not Much, Really

As final exams peak today, I'm treading water for anything interesting for the moment. We go out first thing Thursday to survey streams for spring pygmy sunfish and tuscumbia darters. The weather forecast is for sunny but a high of 44 deg. F which will be brisk. Wearing waders and walking around definitely conserves heat, I just hope we don't get cold hands. But the status of this stream system is a good scientific question with serious ramifications for the continued existence of a species. Will anyone invoke some sort of "god squad" to decide the fate of this species, or just carry on as usual as a species disappears? It's a serious ethical question, unless of course you don't think it is.