11 Days and Counting! Are You Ready Bonner County??

The organizers of the international 2021 City Nature Challenge bioblitz have finalized a video to promote it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO45mO9BUJM

The video highlights cities, and most the Challenges will be in metropolitan areas. See the map of the Challenges here:
https://citynaturechallenge.org/city-list-2021/

But the City Nature Challenge: Bonner County (CNCBC), like a growing number of others, will have a county-wide boundary.

Are you ready to participate? Again, its free and very easy to do. For an excellent introduction on how to do so, please watch this video:
https://zoom.us/rec/play/aAH0okTeANvh2LuCuv4zlCkIjqW65FlvX_z6d2kclC1914kiNwbaNERj-qEisJN-5tMlYlOg1ogbmPSi.LJ8Cy54i1THAP5p0

The FAQs can be found here:
https://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science/city-nature-challenge/FAQs

For more information, look at the About section of this page and/or the CNCBC iNaturalist Project page:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021-bonner-county-id

Also, if you want/need more information, make sure to watch the Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society’s Zoom presentation titled “City Nature Challenge 2021: Bonner County” on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIoceqqrTIvGNNOgMx-grNiYheBZn2KhA3J.

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As promised, the gorgeous trophies have arrived! You can see them on the CNCBC Facebook Page, and in the display case of the East Bonner County Library (thanks to Mike Bauer for putting it together!). And thanks to Chad Butherus of Hard Art Studios for making them, and donating the “CNCBC Champ 2021” trophy. And to the Pend Oreille Chapter of the Idaho Master Naturalists for donating the smaller “CNCBC 2021” trophies.

*Coming soon will be a photo of Sassy (donated by the Pend Oreille Chapter of the Idaho Master Naturalists, and painted by Luz Chase Bayless), and the North Rocky Mountain Challenge Trophy (created by the organizers of the Red Lodge City Nature Challenge).

Again:
1) the “CNCBC Champ 2021” Sasquatch trophy will be won by the person who makes the most unique observations.
2) the “CNCBC 2021” Sasquatch trophies will be won by first person to find Sassy -and- make 20 observations of other species on each day of the competition. To qualify, send an email with CNCBC 2021 in the Subject line to cncbonnercounty@gmail.com as soon as you’ve made the observations. Include your name, your iNaturalist user name, and contact information in the body of the email. (Location clues will be posted on this page. The principal organizers of the CNCBC - the ones who know where she’ll be hiding - are not eligible to win the “CNCBC 2021” Sasquatch trophies.)
3) The winners will be announced on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Join the Facebook Live event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/782272925738524. The trophies can be picked up at 10:00 AM Pacific Time on Saturday, May15, 2021 at the East Bonner County Library. If Bonner County wins the regional competition, Mike Bauer of the East Bonner County Library District will accept the North Rocky Mountain Challenge Trophy, and it will be kept and displayed at the library, but will be rotated to different locations around the county.

Posted on April 18, 2021 11:58 PM by geogehrig geogehrig

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