City Nature Challenge Just Hours Away!
We're so excited to add Western North Carolina to the City Nature Challenge for our inaugural year! We join other NC regions including Greater Charlotte and the Triangle. Help us represent the our wonderland of biodiversity- not to mention the salamander capital of the world! You can track how we stack up against these other regions by joining the North Carolina City Nature Challenge: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/north-carolina-city-nature-challenge-2019
As a reminder, any observations made from midnight tonight through Monday within Western North Carolina will be counted. And, to sweeten the pot, we have some great prizes for our participants (I plan to upload a ton of observations but I'm not eligible for the prizes!).
First Place Species Count: You'll receive a pair of Vortex binoculars, a collection of field guides, a red-light flashlight (all courtesy of the Compleat Naturalist Nature Shop), National Parks of the US puzzle and NC Arboretum hat (courtesy of the Connections Gallery at the NC Arboretum), and a $100 gift card from Frugal Backpacker! In addition, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences has thrown in a set of smartphone camera lenses and a smartphone binocular adapter.
Second Place Species Count: a $100 gift card from Frugal Backpacker and a $50 gift card from REI, and a set of smartphone camera lenses and a smartphone binocular adapter.
Top Overall Observations: a $100 gift card from Frugal Backpacker, a $25 gift card from REI, and a set of smartphone camera lenses and a smartphone binocular adapter.
Second Place Overall Observations: a $100 gift card from REI.
Know a child ages 5-13 who wants to participate? If they sign up for ecoEXPLORE, a citizen science initiative of the NC Arboretum that links youth to iNaturalist, they can participate by uploading observations to www.ecoexplore.net. More prizes are available for these participants as well!
Happy BioBlitzing!
Jonathan Marchal,
Western NC City Nature Challenge Leader,
Youth Education Manager at The North Carolina Arboretum
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