The City Nature Challenge is HERE!

Nature is all around us in Northern Utah (even when it is rainy!), and we need your help photographing it from April 26-29, during The 2024 City Nature Challenge! This annual event is all about making as many iNaturalist observations as we can in 4 days. The observations you make will showcase Utah's unique biodiversity on a global scale, as we compete with other cities around the world to see who can make the most observations!

How to take part:

• Make iNaturalist observations of the wild things (or evidence of the wild things) you find in Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Salt Lake, Summit, Wasatch, Weber and Utah counties from April 26-29.
• Observations made within the project's requirements will be automatically added to the local project, and also contribute to the collective global bioblitz, with over 600 participating cities.
• Explore on your own, or join a local event
• Get the word out to your friends and family!
• Join the 2024 City Nature Challenge: Utah's Wasatch project for updates.
• You must take your photos from April 26-29, but have until May 5th to get everything uploaded to iNaturalist

Here's how to get connected in Utah:

• Looking for a local event, ways to connect, or fun resources for educators, families, or anyone interested in this year's City Nature Challenge? Visit The Natural History Museum of Utah's CNC webpage for more info: https://nhmu.utah.edu/citizen-science/challenge
  
• Interested in local competition? See where you rank throughout the 2024 Challenge on this dashboard
• Interested to see how you rank globally? Check in on this project as the CNC progresses

Looking for some motivation? These are some taxa and areas that tend to be under-surveyed during the CNC in Utah:

• Fungus (find those mushrooms!)
• Fish
• Amphibians
• Alpine plants
• Box Elder, Summit and Wasatch Counties

City Nature Challenge 2024 important dates:

• Take photos of WILD things from April 26-29
• Complete uploading images as observations to iNaturalist from April 30-May 5
• Help make IDs and verify observations in the project from April 26-May 5

Last year, the 2023 Utah's Wasatch project gathered just over 5,000 observations...can we make more this year? We can't do with without you!

We'll be out there photographing nature with you. Good luck, we are so excited to see what you find!

Happy Exploring!

Ellen Eiriksson, Citizen Science Program Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah & the 2024 Utah's Wasatch Partner Organizations: Basin Recreation, USFWS Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, City of Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountain Nature & Wildlife Alliance, Jordan River Commission, Sageland Collaborative, Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, Salt Lake City Park Rangers, Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter, Thanksgiving Point, Tracy Aviary, Utah Lake Authority, Utah Valley University College of Science, and Utah’s Hogle Zoo.

Posted on April 26, 2024 08:44 PM by nhmucitsci