Reflection Riding Announces Free, Outdoor Community Event: City Nature Challenge 2021 Monday, April 26, 2021
Matt Guenther using the iNaturalist app identifying a hemlock
Join Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center for the City Nature Challenge on Friday and Saturday for two full days of outdoor fun. The full schedule of events includes night hikes, guided walks, volunteer projects, a campfire concert and more. A full listing of events is below.
Events and activities are first-come, first-served, there is no need to sign up to participate and all programming will take place outdoors. Events and activities are donations-based, meaning that Reflection Riding asks that the public make a donation at a level comfortable for them, or become a member, rather than pay a set fee to join in the fun.
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Calling all local residents and UNM community to participate in City Nature Challenge
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Local residents are invited to join The University of New Mexico R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography in the City Nature Challenge. The City of Albuquerque will take on Phoenix, Ariz., to see which city can log the most uploads of local plants and wildlife.
If you can download an app and take photos, you can do citizen science, according to Geography and Environmental Studies professor and Center director Maria Lane.
FORT WAYNE â Science Centralâs Earth Day Celebration is set for Saturday and will feature a day of special programming.
Jacquelyn Buck, education specialist with Allen County Partnership for Water Quality, will speak about her organizationâs mission to promote the improvement of local water quality. Also, Neil Miller, communications and outreach coordinator with the Allen County Department of Environmental Management, will speak about the departmentâs efforts to help community members reduce their environmental footprint. Miller and Buck will both speak in the Lincoln Financial Foundation Demonstration Space, located in Science Centralâs Traveling Exhibitions Gallery.
At 10 a.m., Science Central will conduct a nature hike through Lawton Park. The hike will depart from Science Central and participants will be encouraged to use the free iNaturalist smartphone app to document their experience. This app is being utilized as part of the local City Nature Challen
Eugene and Springfield are among 145 cities worldwide participating in what’s called the City Nature Challenge. It starts Friday, April 30th.
A wild Iris in a local Eugene park. Participants in City Nature Challenge can share photos of plants and animals in their urban environment.
Credit Rachael McDonald
If you’ve got a smartphone or tablet, you can participate in the challenge, an effort to map urban wildlife over a four day period.
Elizabeth Goward, volunteer programs manager with McKenzie River Trust, said, using the free I-naturalist app, you can photograph wildlife in the urban environment. “Anything from plants to birds to bugs, worms, really most science is happening in more remote areas and generally in the context of academia,” Goward said. “So, what this project really aims to do is to document as much biodiversity as possible.”