rockyemeraldbuckeye's Journal

Hi Everyone!

Wanted to let you all know that City Nature Challenge is happening again this year, April 26-29, 2019! The Mahoning River Valley in Northeast Ohio is participating in this international BioBlitz competition.

I’ve tagged you in this journal post (or in the comments) because you’re either: (1) a top observer in this area (2) or a top Identifier of observations in this area. We’re really hoping you’ll participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge – while we know getting observations from as many people as we can is important, we also know that it’s top iNat observers like you that will really push us ahead in the number of observations made and especially the number of species we look to get our first year competing!

The easiest way to join in is to just make as many observations of as many species as possible in any of the 8 counties that are within the watershed during April 26-28. Helping with IDs will also increase our species number, so that’s a great way to help out as well. And of course, spread the word! City Nature Challenge 2019 Mahoning River Valley iNaturalist project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-mahoning-river-valley

The details: the CNC runs from 12:01 AM on Friday, 4/26 to 11:59 PM on Monday, 4/29. All observations from all 8 counties (Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbia, Stark, Portage, Ashtabula, Geauga & Lawrence County, PA) counts. Also, the more observations we can get identified down to species by then, the higher our species number will be.

We want to brainstorm about places around the area that would be really great to have people go to during the City Nature Challenge – places that have high diversity and/or unique species. You can see the list here

I'll be doing some local trainings and events the day of for the public and with school groups.

Please feel free to brainstorm other ideas, ask questions, etc. in the comments – and definitely add others to this journal post via tagging them in the comments!