study links scientist to begging for grants
let them get real jobs
maybe in service or health sector like the rest of us
They are doing real jobs. You might not approve of the system, or how it's financed, but it is important info in the long run that helps people know how to deal with lands, their management, protecting watershed so people have enough water to drink, ranching use and, when you can keep the greens under control, lumber use.
The watershed use, weather forecasting and working with what's called urban-wildland interface' areas so they don't go up in smoke at great cost to the public sector are probably the most important areas that this research impacts.