NHMU BioBlitz Opportunity - 8/24/19

Greetings NHMU BioBlitz friends!

The Natural History Museum of Utah is hosting a Neighborhood Naturalists BioBlitz tomorrow 8/24 from 10am-2pm. We will be at the Backman Community Open Space (an undeveloped open space just west of the Jordan River, and Backman Elementary School). You can find us at: 578 Riverside Drive, Salt Lake City, 84116 (more info in the link below).

This open space is slated to see some infrastructure updates starting this fall and into 2020, including a bridge over the Jordan River, and a complete overhaul of the open space, turning it into a formal City Park.

Before construction begins, we are collecting baseline data to inform the city about the current biodiversity of the site, to influence future management of the space. We hosted a bioblitz here earlier in the summer, and are back to get more data! We could use your help documenting the species living in this open space!

Come engage with the NHMU Citizen Science staff and other iNaturalist enthusiasts, and hep us catalog the biodiversity of Backman Open Space!

https://nhmu.utah.edu/events/august-24-jordan-river-SLC-neighborhood-naturalists

Hope to see you there! Feel free to share with all you think might be interested.

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Posted on August 23, 2019 08:45 PM by elleneiriksson