Will have to work at many things concurrently. Importance of inventory work. Perhaps more importantly, we need to predict the future. Importance of this to managers with limited resources. Can't make predictions without past knowledge.
Prediction is a tool.
We need to be able to apply our knowledge as managers. Knowledge of past as a framework for the future. At different points with different taxa. Birds are better known, Odonates being worked on, CT only state with flies on state list, no hymenoptera. Inventory is the data for much of these decisions.