Welcome and How to batch-add your observations to the Rare Species of Indiana Project

Hello There!

Welcome to the new Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center's iNaturalist Project. Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm for documenting biodiversity of this great state. To help us you can add you observations to the project and to make it easier there is a way to batch-add!

Here are the steps to take:

From the Rare Species of Indiana project page, click "Add from your observations." (if you're not already a member of the project, click "Join Project" at the top of the page first)
If you have matching observations, click the "Batch Edit" button near the top of the page.
Click "Select All".
Click "Add to Project" and then Add Rare Species of Indiana.
Be sure to approve the curators of the project to see your precise locations
Done! Repeat periodically to tag new observations or to match newly-tracked species.
We at the Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center use your observations to help assess species statuses, distributions, habitat use, and trends. Our data is used by many agencies, consultants, and researchers throughout Indiana. In addition, our data is shared with NatureServe which pools data from all 50 states and several Canadian provinces and Latin American countries to allow for regional analyses. Your observations really do make a difference!

Thanks,

Teresa

Posted on June 25, 2021 06:00 PM by tldclark