@nprofile1q... Yes, perhaps that is notable. In both of the last two university cost-cutting rounds, the Agriculture and Life Sciences division solved its budget shortfall by jettisoning ecologists. We lost about a third of our ecologists through these two rounds (we’ve made several hires since then). Grant Edwards was the AGLS Dean the second time, and I think was head of the Agriculture Department the first time. He’s not new to this form of problem solving.