City Nature Challenge at Wooded Island, Jackson Park 4/15/2017

Thanks to everyone for coming out to Wooded Island within Jackson Park on April 15th, 2017 to document some local urban biota. Thank you especially to Lauren Umek, Jerry Levy, and David Bild for showing us around Jackson Park and helping to teach the group how to use iNaturalist. Also many thanks to those helping identify some of the unknowns.

So far we've documented 190 observations of 81 species at Jackson Park on April 15th...but the numbers will continue to rise as more observations get identified. I was pleasantly surprised to find native flora such as Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), wild ginger (Asarum canadense), Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans), and spring beauties (Claytonia virginica).

Chicago's City Nature Challenge 2017 covers the whole of Cook County and is up to 1268 observations of 343 species so far. The contest period runs til the end of the day tomorrow, April 18th, so plenty of time to find a local park and document more flora and fauna.

Some links:
Help identify iNaturalist observations in Cook County
Volunteer at Jackson Park or other Chicago Park District Natural Areas
Learn more about the big habitat restoration project at Jackson Park

cassi saari (@bouteloua)
Co-Director, Habitat 2030
Ecologist, ecology + vision, llc

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Posted on April 17, 2017 01:21 PM by bouteloua