What will you discover during this year’s City Nature Challenge?

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu

 

The City Nature Challenge has grown from a friendly competition between the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to a global celebration of urban biodiversity.  By documenting the plants and animals that live nearby, you can contribute to a vast data set that will help inform conservation decisions. 

This year's  City Nature Challenge is happening April 30-May 9, 2021. You can participate on the iNaturalist website.

For both new and experienced citizen scientists, participating is easy.  If you live in or visit the 13-county Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, you can share your observations of nature.

  1. Download the free iNaturalist app to your mobile device.
  2. Between April 30 and May 3, 2021, take photos of wild plants and animals in your backyard,  in a park, along your walk to school or work—anywhere you find nature in the 13-county metro area.
  3. Upload your photos to iNaturalist, where they will automatically be counted as part of the City Nature Challenge. 
  4. Then from May 4 through 9, learn more as the iNaturalist community helps identify your observations.
  5. And share your naturalist expertise to help identify the photos that other people submit on iNaturalist

 

Publication: 

The Drummer and The Wright County Journal Press

PO Box 159
108 Central Ave.
Buffalo MN 55313

www.thedrummer.com

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