Sign up for Yosemite's Bloom Blitz Today!

You have found our Bloom Blitz webpage! Congratulations and thank you for visiting. The following is some general sign-up information so you can start planning your trip today! We are registering participants on a first come first served basis, so please email me to reserve your spot today. My contact information is below.

The Yosemite Bloom Blitz will be held on May 22, 2016 in Yosemite National Park. This celebration of biodiversity and discovery is one of over a hundred bioblitzes, each with their own theme and focus, occurring in national parks across the country that will commemorate the National Park Service’s Centennial. At Yosemite, we will conduct botanical surveys with a specific focus on flowering plants in recently burned areas. These surveys will document the floral diversity that follows fires in various elevations, habitats, and times since the last fire, and we will share those findings online.

We will be breaking into groups of 10 and surveying 10 trails from 8-4:30pm, likely with a gathering in the Valley afterward to share our findings. The trail leaders will be NPS Vegetation staff, Yosemite Conservancy Naturalists, Sierra Nevada specific botanists, and interested University biology professors.

We'll be collecting data using the iNaturalist app and after upload it will be displayed on this webpage. Please have all participants in your group download the app to their smartphone, create a profile, and join the Yosemite's Bloom Blitz project so all your observations end up on the website. If you don’t have a smartphone we will partner you up with someone who does.

If you haven’t signed up and received your paperwork yet (Volunteer Agreement, campsite assignment, and gate pass) then please email Molly Downer at Molly_Downer@nps.gov. Hope to see you on the trail!

Posted on April 28, 2016 06:25 PM by juniplover42 juniplover42

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Sounds awesome! I hope you get lots of great observations! :-)

Posted by carrieseltzer almost 8 years ago

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