New Project Added - My Kentucky Yard

My Kentucky Yard captures attention with intelligent, concise, and thoughtful observation “notes”. It’s nice when project managers add a couple sentences of “notes” along with the scientific data. Sometimes the feeling they have, while capturing the data, might itself be part of that data. This owner appears to have thought about these notes finding their way toward a distant future where anthropologists might better understand what we were interested in while conducting the observations. What we were thinking and feeling about individual species but also about the collection of species our properties support.

The project manager responds...

I'm pleased that you like my notes. From a field botanist's perspective, most iNat observations could be improved if people added notes. Without them, so much useful information is lost. When you collect a plant specimen, really good ones include notes in addition to who/what/when/where. It’s best to include useful data that won't be obvious from just the specimen, like habitat information, how common the species was, associated organisms, etc. I include other information with my iNat observations because I hope to use them for examples when teaching, and just because I enjoy writing about nature.

The umbrella project is looking good. I've already enjoyed virtually visiting the other properties.

Posted on January 16, 2023 05:28 PM by stockslager