Houston City Nature Challenge
Hello, iNat Community in the Houston Area!
I've tagged you because you are a strong user of iNaturalist in our 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 found in the Houston area!
The easiest way to join in is to just make as many observations of as many species as possible in any of the nine counties of the project area during the event period (Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Ft. Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Waller). 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 2017 Houston iNaturalist project: http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2017-houston
The details: City Nature Challenge is a nationwide event, and three Texas cities are going head to head: Houston vs. Dallas vs. Austin. The event will be held April 14-18, and total observations, participants, and species within the project area will count. We anticipate a particularly active iNat effort during that time, with plenty of newcomers, so IDing help from more experienced folks like you is going to be very helpful to our species counts. [We actually have an extra day or two after the event to continue with the IDs before the final tallies.]
Texas Parks and Wildlife has a page with leaderboard and more details at www.tpwd.texas.gov/naturechallenge
Please feel free to brainstorm, ask questions, etc. in the comments – and definitely add others to this journal post via tagging them in the comments! This is Houston’s first year in the Challenge, and we hope to bring some game.
Sarah Flournoy @sflournoy
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