The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All
observations start as "casual" grade, and achieve
"research" grade when
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the iNat community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing"
identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the
observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi
says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees with Scott.
- the observation has a date
- the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates)
- the observation has a photo
Observations will revert to "casual" grade if the above conditions aren't met or
- the community agrees the location doesn't looks accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean, hippos in office buildings, etc.)
- the community agrees the organism isn't wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans or intelligent space aliens)
Comments & Identifications
as mentioned in the other sighting, I believe most of these krumholtz trees are black spruce, and it is in the area - but there also is red spruce around. It's hard enough to tell these apart when they aren't beat up by incredibly harsh winter weather.
Both spruce and fir are in the krumholtz. This one appears to be a fir.
ha! how silly. I was so busy trying to figure out which spruce it was. Do fir needles get less 'flat' on the stem in this extreme environment? To me they don't seem as flat though now that I look at it, I can see that it might indeed be a fir. It was the highest tree on the mountain!
I'm so glad you are on here, I'm learning all kinds of new stuff today (yesterday)
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