Get Ready for the 2023 City Nature Challenge!

Hi everyone,
The annual City Nature Challenge is happening this year on April 28 – May 1, 2023. The City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document what lives in towns and cities across the globe. There are around 485 other towns and cities participating this year so it will be great to see what everyone finds!

I’ve tagged you in this post because you are a top 50 observer in the Abingdon/Bristol/Norton/Grundy area. We’re hoping you’ll participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge. It is top iNat observers like you that will really help push us ahead in number of observations made and species recorded in southwestern Virginia. The easiest way to participate is to make as many iNaturalist observations of as many species as possible in Bristol, Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Norton, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, and Wise counties during April 28 – May 1. Helping with identifications will increase our final species numbers so that’s a great way to participate as well. You can find our City Nature Challenge: Clinch River Valley project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-clinch-river-valley

The 2023 City Nature Challenge runs from 12:01am on Friday, 4/28 to 11:59pm on Monday, 5/1. All iNaturalist observations from Bristol, Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Norton, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, and Wise counties will automatically be counted towards the Challenge. Results will be announced on Monday, May 8 so be sure to upload all your observations by then. For more information and for a list of events happening across Virginia area during this challenge, please visit our website at https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/events/virginia-city-nature-challenge/

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Posted on April 18, 2023 09:01 PM by mduffy