Reminder of our upcoming organizers meeting!
Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicagoland Region. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 28th through May 1st, 2023. Save the dates!
Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 10AM Central
via Zoom
To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will send you the meeting link.
Other links:
- Regional CNC website: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge
- CNC 2022 Chicago Metro project summary
- Other Chicago Metro journal posts from 2022
Thinking of planning an event?
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, we will be collecting all events and displaying them on our regional hub. Example events include:
- bioblitz
- guided nature hikes
- iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
- virtual identification party or nature storytelling
- sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
- learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
- urban nature trivia Zoom