Join the Umpqua Community College Biodiversity Project!

Greetings Naturalists!

Please join me in discovering and documenting the diverse array of plants and animals on the Umpqua Community College campus, nearby college-owned property, and river (please do not trespass on nearby private property). Documenting a discovery is easy with the iNaturalist app on your cell phone, or by entering via your computer from notes in a field journal. What can you find on campus? Anything ALIVE is eligible for submission, from trees, to bugs, to squirrels, to mushrooms, to birds, to worms, to flowers, to moss, to frogs, to lichens, and much more. Take a photo of something, submit it to iNaturalist. Join the Umpqua Community College Project on iNat. Then share your observations with this project!

One cool thing about iNat is that you don't have to know exactly what it is you are documenting! In other words, if you take a photo of a bug, that you know is a beetle, but you're not sure beyond that, you can just submit it as a beetle. Then, the iNat community will give feedback on what type of beetle it might be. As you learn more about identifying things and about the ID resources for particular taxa, you will get better at it over time too. It is a great way to learn.

I hope you will join me in discovering and documenting the tremendous diversity of life that exists right here on the Umpqua Community College property!

Posted on March 18, 2017 04:16 AM by umpquamatt