Nebraska Husks Research to Ease Budget Squeeze

Abstract

When U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents investigate deaths of endangered wildlife in Nebraska, they turn to Tom Labedz to identify the carcass. So do state health officials worried about West Nile virus and researchers looking for DNA samples from 100-year-old remains of whooping cranes. But not for much longer. Last month, Labedz and five other collection managers at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln got pink slips, along with half of the museum's eight curators, in what some researchers fear could be the beginning of the end for the museum.