Today, with my family, I watched the first episode of Human Footprint, which is about invasive species. It’s full of US government employees (I noticed USGS, BLM, and Army Corps of Engineers) doing important science and engineering: keeping asian carp out of the great lakes, studying pythons in the everglades, and managing the wild horse population in the west.

I had to wonder, after these last few weeks… do these people still have jobs? What will happen without them?