Rubio Canyon (Photo – danshikingblog.blogspot.com)
Attention photographers and nature lovers in Altadena (and beyond)!
Take photos of plants, insects and wildlife you see in Rubio Canyon, then upload your observations to iNaturalist to help document Altadena nature!
The City Nature Challenge, a Citizen Science Day, will take place in two parts, April 27-30 and May 1 -3. It seeks to find the most species, and engage the most people in the worldwide 2018 City Nature Challenge.
Over 60 cities will be competing to see who can make the most observations of nature!
History of City Nature Challenge
In 2016, the citizen science teams at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences dreamed up the City Nature Challenge as a fun way to capitalize on their home cities’ friendly rivalry and hold a citizen science event around urban biodiversity.
The first City Nature Challenge was an eight-day competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, engaging residents and visitors in documenting nature to better understand urban biodiversity. Over 20,000 observations were made by more than 1000 people in a one-week period, cataloging approximately 1600 species in each location, including new records for both areas.
In 2017 the City Nature Challenge went national, and in 2018, the CNC is now an international event!
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