The City Nature Challenge is this weekend!
We've got a ton of events planned for the City Nature Challenge! Mark your calendars and find the linked Facebook event pages below.
All events are free, kid-friendly, open to everyone, and sponsored by the Southwest Louisiana Master Naturalists. If you're from another area, visit Louisiana's Outback to experience the wildlife we have out here! If you live here, please post sightings from your own backyard!
Friday
9 AM Cajun Prairie Tour--Iowa to Kinder
2 PM Citizen Science Nature Walk--Tuten Park, Lake Charles
Saturday
8:30 AM Longleaf Pine Hike--Little Cypress Recreation Area, Vernon Parish
6 PM The Beetle Experience--Tuten Park, Lake Charles
Sunday
2 PM Fish of the Calcasieu--Holbrook Park, Sulphur
Monday
2 PM Citizen Science Nature Walk--Riverside Park Complex, Lake Charles
7:30 PM Moth Night--Tuten Park, Lake Charles
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To the people with lots of observations in Southwest Louisiana, we'd love to see tons of observations this weekend! If you can't make it out to SWLA this weekend, we could still use help identifying all that was seen! Results will be announced on Friday May 4, so we'll have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to identify observations.
@royaltyler @kgardner @robjamax @barbara32 @heteromyid @pmpalmer @cypseloides @henicorhina @smokyrubyspot @biggi24 @thehaplesshiker @amberenergy
Will do! Great job, Irvin!
Sorry, Saturday 8:30 AM for the Long leaf Pine hike
@barbara32, fixed it! Thanks!
@kgardner, totally understand. If you're in Vernon Parish, anything you do get a chance to post (maybe even a photo of an RCW) will count towards the City Nature Challenge. Just wanted to make the iNat users in the area aware.
@ilouque I'm curious if they do any vetting? Several of the Hong Kong observations are silly - people, furniture and Pomeranians!
@amberenergy that's where the identification period comes in. Anytime before May 4, anyone can go in and identify species and mark the really silly ones so they get filtered out. Yeah, after the news interview yesterday, I saw a couple of observations of peoples sheds, dogs on leashes, etc.
@ilouque oh, OK, only the observations that have a second ID will count? That's hard to do, but good!
@amberenergy not necessarily. Pretty much all the observations will count, but you (or anyone) can respond by marking no for "Evidence of Organism" in the Data Quality Assessment. It's a little tricky for sure. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#notorg
@ilouque Thanks!
Very cool! There’s a good chance that I’ll make it to the Cameron coast one of those days.
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