Journal archives for April 2019

April 17, 2019

Learn to use iNaturalist

Come and join Larimer County Open Space for an iNaturalist training at Lion's Open Space!

Friday - April 19, 2019
10:00am to 11:00am

Larimer County is partnering with City of Fort Collins Natural Areas in this years City Nature Challenge April 26th-29th . Join a Larimer County Naturalist to learn about using iNaturalist to participate in this fun event and beyond. We will introduce you to the app and web page and then take a walk around Lions Open Space to take pictures, discuss the variety of plants and animals around us and enjoy the morning. Bring your camera or smart phone so you can become a Citizen Scientist today. Program is free but registration is required. Please go to offero.larimer.org to sign up. Direct questions to Angela at (970) 619-4489.

Lions Open Space
2425 N Overland Trail
Laporte, CO 80535

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Identify Northern Colorado 2019

Do you like identifying wildlife to the family, genus or species level? Join us for this event for fun and refreshments. Amateur and professional biologists and naturalists welcome! Login to https://engage.fcgov.com to sign up.

Tuesday, April 30 | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm at Nix Farm

1745 Hoffman Mill Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80528

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City Nature Challenge 2019

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to let you all know that City Nature Challenge is happening this year, April 26-May 5, 2019! Since 2016, this challenge has grown to over 150 internationally competing cities. You can see the full list of cities here: http://citynaturechallenge.org/ This is Northern Colorado’s first time participating in the event and we would love to see the community discover nature in our area!

I’ve tagged you in this journal post because you’re either: (1) a top observer from the Fort Collins and Larimer County Boundary, and/or (2) a top identifier in the area or surrounding over the last year or so. We’re really hoping you’ll participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge. Getting observations from as many people as we can is important, however, it’s top iNat observers like you that will really push us ahead in the number of observations made and especially the number of species found in the Northern Colorado area.

As an incentive, we are offering our top observer the chance to win a free Garden in a Box! For more information, visit our website: https://www.fcgov.com/naturalareas/city-nature-challenge
The easiest way to join in is to just make as many observations of as many species as possible during April 26-29. Helping with IDs will also increase our species number, so that’s a great way to help out as well.

On Tuesday, April 30 we are hosting a free lunch and ID party from 11-1 pm at our Natural Areas campus. If anyone is interested in joining us to help identify observations, then please login to https://engage.fcgov.com to sign up. And of course, spread the word! City Nature Challenge 2019: Northern Colorado iNaturalist project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-northern-colorado

The details: the CNC runs from 12:01 AM on Friday, 4/26 to 11:59 PM on Monday, 4/29. We're announcing results on Monday, 5/6, so try to get all your observations uploaded by then! Also, the more observations we can get identified down to species by then, the higher our species number will be.

Please feel free to ask questions, etc. in the comments – and definitely add others to this journal post via tagging them in the comments!

@dduff @joshuagsmith @john8 @paloma @aguilita @greglasley @jackerfield @maxallen @nlblock @mikepatterson @texaskingbird @vantruan @maractwin @maxkirsch @benmcclellan @brandonwoo @tonnessen @johnascher @psweet @bugman1388 @austinlep5288 @mike_hofmann @arrowheadspiketail58 @kevinhintsa @rojosmojo @mlodinow @ericwilliams @bronte2 @msieges @forester93 @jimjohnson @melimez @d_kluza @bug_eric @lincolndurey @wouterteunissen @kleric42 @mark67 @silversea_starsong @mmwebb @owlentine @timbir5 @mjeklass @joed @crontl72 @aplodontia @dailyentomologist @sammid @lnixon001 @jpm58 @suzanne11 @timothyweinmann @okail @alliepetersen @cjhelm295 @pedro9 @sarahgrace2 @franciscommercon @tubanjosh @mackenzie8 @austinhess

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April 21, 2019

Do You Have A Knack For Spotting Wildlife?

The Nature Conservancy and Colorado Native Heritage Program are teaming up to help bring observations to research grade. Local experts and amateur biologists are welcome to stop by and enjoy some refreshments while identifying observations. Bring your favorite field guides or dichotomous keys and help discover wildlife in northern Colorado!

Friday, May 3 | 12-3 pm

Colorado State University
CNHP Conference Room #242

For directions & parking, follow this link: https://www.fcgov.com/naturalareas/city-nature-challenge

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