Reflecting on the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management odyssey

Reflecting on the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management Odyssey"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it-and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."~Marcus Aurelius My appreciation for lessons on equanimity from the Stoic philosophy has been heightened this year as uncertainty abounds for scientists working for the U.S. government.Case in point, after 15 years of publication, we were recently instructed to abruptly discontinue the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (JFWM).While not entirely surprising given the current environment, the immediacy of the closure was unexpected and disconcerting.Our first concern was fulfilling our commitment to authors who had manuscripts in various stages of review and publication at JFWM.We were determined to finish the review process and somehow publish those that were successful.As we scrambled to find a solution, The Wildlife Society quickly stepped up and offered to help.