BioBlitz EXTREME! update

We are getting ready for the next installment of the Siuslaw Model Forest BioBlitz! - an all day event with experts to help us find more species! See what we've found so far in our latest Guide at https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/16079. We also have a Guide showing the bird species at https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/16087.

A BioBlitz is a communal citizen-science effort to record as many species within a designated location and time period as possible.

We got started at the kick-off event on October 23rd, 2021 – now local experts will help us record more observations at the BioBlitz EXTREME event on Saturday, September 17, 2022!

Experts will lead teams on walks into the forest to collect data using iNaturalist and eBird to continue to build our dataset on the Siuslaw Model Forest. By identifying and recording as many species as possible, we can build an overall species list and add to other research happening in the forest. We’ll kick off the event with a bird walk led by Rich Guthrie, mammals will be the next topic with Jim McDarby, Hudson High School Science Teacher, then Dr. Carmen Greenwood of SUNY Cobleskill will help us search for insects. After a short break for lunch Gabriela D'Elia, Director, Fungal Diversity Survey will lead a fungi walk, followed by a plants walk with Tracey Testo-Smith of Cornell Cooperative Extension Columbia and Greene Counties, and participants will end the day sleuthing for salamanders and other amphibians and reptiles with Rebecca Pinder, Ph.D. of Columbia-Greene Community College, and we'll end the day with a tally of what we’ve found!

Posted on September 15, 2022 03:25 PM by pammiprice