Countdown: 0 DAYS TO GO – TOMORROW is the first of the 4 days of the CNCBC!
OK! No more fooling around!! Here are clues to where you can find Sassy TOMORROW, Friday, April 30 until 6:30P:
After 6:30 PM, she’ll be moved to the next location. Clues for that location will be here posted here tomorrow morning.
Need a quick review on how to what the City Nature Challenge is, and how to participate?
All you have to do is:
1) Download the free iNaturalist app (get the Seek app, too, while you’re at it).
2) Create an account (must be 13 years old).
3) Go out and take some photos of flora and fauna within Bonner County, and upload them. They will be automatically included in the CNCBC between 12:01 AM on April 30th and 11:59 PM on Monday May 3rd.
When taking photos. Remember:
Here are some good tutorial videos:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials
Here are a couple of good ones from the Red Lodge, MT organizer:
Here is the FAQs doc:
https://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science/city-nature-challenge/FAQs
The City Nature Challenge 2021: Bonner County, ID (CNCBC) is in a competition involving over 400 sites around the world. There are no prizes to win, although there will be a leader board showing how many people, observations and species are counted in each individual challenge. You can watch the results live from all over the world here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021. And you can watch the Bonner County observations being made here: http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021-bonner-county-id (this is also a great site to get lots of info – see the About section and Journal entries).
Regionally, Bonner County, Boise, and Red Lodge, MT have a mini competition going on. We are all competing for a newly created Northern Rocky Mountain Challenge Trophy. It will be awarded to the site that gets the most people to participate per capita. Participation involves making at least one observation and uploading it. The winning site will be able to keep the trophy until next year. You can watch their results come in:
The City Nature Challenges have, in every place they’ve been conducted, set a new baseline for nature observations. Will that be true for the three regional challenges? Here’s the baseline as of Thursday, April 29, 2021:
Ada County*: Observations: 18,116; Species: 2,062; Observers: 1,647 | County population: 481,587 | % observers/pop.: 0.3%
(*The Boise Area challenge will 242,160 as the population, since that number represents the 2020 population of Boise and Garden City - the two areas contained in their project.)
Locally, participants can win one CNCBC 2021 Trophy, and a CNCBC 2021 Champ Trophy.
The winners will be announced during a Facebook Live Event on Monday, May 10th at 4:00 PM. Here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/782272925738524.
Reminders:
1) You don’t have to live in Bonner County to participate. So, folks from Benewah, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone: come help! Next year the CNCBC can become a North Idaho Challenge! Heck, we even want our Washington and Montana neighbors to slip over the border and participate!
2) Dr. Jim Eakins of IDAH2O will be at the WaterLife Discovery Center (WDC) in Sagle on Saturday from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM to teach about aquatic macroinvertebrates and how to ID them. Do not miss this opportunity to speak with one of Idaho’s leading watershed experts! Learn about the Master Water Steward Program he administers. The WDC is a great place to make some observations, too.
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