City Nature Challenge 2019

Hi Naturalists,
I want to encourage all of the participants in Plants and Animals of the Texas Panhandle Project to also take part in the City Nature Challenge Project. This is a global project which challenges cities across the globe to compete in the number of observations made within a 4 day period.

Amarillo is one of those cities, along with Austin, Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, El Paso, San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). Last year, there were only 5 Texas cities competing. We finished above El Paso and LRGV. Corpus & San Antonio are new this year.

This year, in addition to overall global and state ranking of every city, the results will also be broken down by population and area. Since our population over 5 counties would put us at a disadvantage with larger metropolitan areas, this works in our favor by leveling the playing field somewhat.
The dates for this are April 26th to April 29th. You don’t have to join the project. You can make observations and they will automatically be pulled into the project if made in Potter, Randall, Carson, Armstrong and Hutchison counties. If you join the project, you will be able to see the observations and even identify species. Just go to Projects and type in City Nature Challenge 2019 and that’s it!
For those of you in Lubbock with the Plants on the Llano Estacado , bring some friends and come on up and join us in showing the rest of the state that there really is something to see out here!!
Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

Thanks and hope to see you out in the fields or your observations on inaturalist!
Joanne Toler
Aka -- jotol

Posted on April 18, 2019 02:51 AM by jotol