Projects from Illinois

2016 National Parks BioBlitz - Pullman! icon

2016 National Parks BioBlitz - Pullman!

The Geographic Society of Chicago is teaming up with the National Park Service (NPS) to celebrate the NPS C...
Berlese Funnel 2021- Illinois icon

Berlese Funnel 2021- Illinois

Arthropods of a soil/ leaf litter sample extracted using a catch-and-release Berlese Funnel. Specimens were...
Biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed icon

Biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed

This projects seeks to document and focus attention on the biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed. The h...
Birds of Illinois icon

Birds of Illinois

Welcome to the Birds of Illinois iNaturalist project, this serves to collect every Illinois Research Grade ...
Bumblebee Rapid Assessment Surveys icon

Bumblebee Rapid Assessment Surveys

Data submission project for bumblebee surveys.
Caterpillars of Eastern North America icon

Caterpillars of Eastern North America

The goal of this project is to collect observations of caterpillars from Eastern North America. Please help...
Chicago Public Trees icon

Chicago Public Trees

This project is aiming to inverntory and collect data on the health and condition of street trees and park ...
City Nature Challenge 2017: Chicago icon

City Nature Challenge 2017: Chicago

Chicago's motto "Urbs in Horto" means "City in a Garden". Let's show the rest of the country how much amazi...
Deer Grove Weed Scouts icon

Deer Grove Weed Scouts

This project was designed to help the Volunteer Invasive Plant Monitors (aka Weed Scouts) in the Deer Grove...
Eastern Spotted Skunk icon

Eastern Spotted Skunk

The eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius; a.k.a. "civet cat" or "polecat") was once common across the ...
Hendricks Farm PA icon

Hendricks Farm PA

What is at the farm?
Herpwatch McHenry County icon

Herpwatch McHenry County

Herpwatch McHenry County monitors reptile and amphibian activity through voluntary data contributions from ...
Illinois Botanists Big Year 2018 icon

Illinois Botanists Big Year 2018

Find the most plant species in Illinois in 2018 and rejoice in your victory! 1. Must be a plant, 2. Observe...
Illinois Natural Heritage Database Program icon

Illinois Natural Heritage Database Program

The Natural Heritage Database Program is within the Division of Natural Heritage at the Illinois Department...
Illinois Prairies icon

Illinois Prairies

The goal of this project is to document the distribution of prairie plants and animals remaining in Illinois.
Illinois Prairies icon

Illinois Prairies

The goal of this project is to document the distribution of prairie plants and animals remaining in Illinois.
Illinois RiverWatch icon

Illinois RiverWatch

The mission of the Illinois RiverWatch Network is to safeguard the future of Illinois rivers and streams th...
Illinois Threatened & Endangered Species icon

Illinois Threatened & Endangered Species

The purpose of this project is to document the occurrence of all of Illinois' Threatened and Endangered spe...
Invasive species of Lake County, IL icon

Invasive species of Lake County, IL

To identify and GPS locations of invasive species populations that are not currently known. These location ...
Keith Creek and Kent Creek Ecosystem  and Wildlife Corridor icon

Keith Creek and Kent Creek Ecosystem and Wildlife Corridor

Keith Creek and Kent Creek are located in Winnebago County Illinois; and part of Boone County. These two cr...
Matthiessen State Park icon

Matthiessen State Park

The purpose of this project is to collect the different plant species and animals at Matthiessen State Park...
McKinley Park Bio Blitz! icon

McKinley Park Bio Blitz!

This project is an effort to understand and identify all of the diverse life which resides in the Natural A...
McKinley Park Tree Survey~ icon

McKinley Park Tree Survey~

How many trees are in McKinley Park? What species are there? Where are they precisely? Let's find out tog...
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie icon

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie was established by Congress in 1996 with the Illinois Land Conservation ...
Mushrooms, lichens, & fungi of Illinois icon

Mushrooms, lichens, & fungi of Illinois

Show your pics of mushrooms, molds, fungal diseases, lichens, et cetera. Any kind of fungus! Mushroom...
Neighborhood Nature Play Path icon

Neighborhood Nature Play Path

Use this project to plan and map your neighborhood nature play hike. The questions in this project are base...
Orland Grassland Weed Scouts icon

Orland Grassland Weed Scouts

This project helps Weed Scouts capture the location of invasive species that can harm the habitat for nativ...
Orland Seed Scouting icon

Orland Seed Scouting

Potential seed collection species at Orland Grassland.
PIF 2019 - 2020 icon

PIF 2019 - 2020

This project includes observation from bird surveys and camera trap images taken at Chicago High Schools, M...
Pond Fauna at The Grove icon

Pond Fauna at The Grove

Observations of species surveyed from ponds at The Grove, a national historic landmark in Glenview, Illinois.
Shells of Lamera Pond icon

Shells of Lamera Pond

Tracking the species of mollusks in the pond to gain a better understanding of the impacts of invasive *Cor...
Shells of Waterview Way icon

Shells of Waterview Way

Tracking the species a small pond before *Corbicula* inevitably invades
Shells of Waterview Way 2 icon

Shells of Waterview Way 2

Discover and document the species of this other small pond. *Corbicula* was introduced at some point and it...
SIU Herp Club icon

SIU Herp Club

This iNaturalist group is for the SIU Herpetology Enthusiasts of Southern Illinois to submit their herp obs...
Starhill Forest Arboretum icon

Starhill Forest Arboretum

This project documents spontaneous (not planted) species found at Starhill Forest Arboretum. Feel free to c...
Swissôtel Chicago Nature Nearby icon

Swissôtel Chicago Nature Nearby

Swissôtel invites you to discover and share nature around our hotels. We'd like you to help us discover eve...
The Prairie at Walnut Grove icon

The Prairie at Walnut Grove

To record observations at the prairie.
Time to Wake Up icon

Time to Wake Up

Take pictures of plants waking up from the long winter. Close up images of plants in Madison County, IL.
Waters School Bioblitz 2016 icon

Waters School Bioblitz 2016

Wednesday June 8th, Waters is hosting a Biodiversity Day and "bioblitz" on our school grounds. A bioblitz...
Watershed Nature Center icon

Watershed Nature Center

See something wild at the Watershed Nature Center? Help us record flora and fauna populations by recording ...
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