I am not sure that anything good is coming from your efforts. I think this is just another example of misappropriated funds. I am a taxpayer, and I do not like to see things like this. So went a letter I received last week.
Some letters are more gratifying to get than others.
The letter writer had not only attacked me for studying fluctuations in amphibian populations but also assaulted the principle of conducting basic ecological research itself. I found the letter provoking and challenging, a confrontation to what I thought was right. Another case of a non-ecologist deciding what ecologists should do. The very nerve. I thought it best to put the letter aside before responding, until I counted to a thousand or so.