AppState campus areas to visit

Hi all,

many of the questions I have received so far revolve around where to go and park for the BioBlitz, so the video below is the first in a series introducing our locations. This video covers the main campus areas, including the Nature Preserve. More info will follow on our more remote locations.

I also had some folks ask about planted vs. wild trees and included some info about the AppState Tree Inventory, which helps you to tell which trees on campus are the planted ones. You can post observations of planted trees on iNaturalist. However, they should be marked cultivated so they do not count as Research Grade observations. The reasoning behind this is that iNaturalist is meant primarily to track the occurrence of wild organisms, and cultivated plants or captive animals create problems for researchers who try to use iNaturalist data e.g. for species range maps. Cultivated plants will not count in our BioBlitz stats.

Visitor parking is available in the Rivers Street Parking Deck for a fee, or free on campus surface lots after 5 PM on weekdays and all day on Sunday. Note that there will be a football game on Saturday, Oct. 29th, so unless you have a ticket/parking permit for the game I would advise to plan on visiting off-campus places for the BioBlitz on Saturday. You can find more details about parking on the Visitor Parking page - also note their forgiveness policy at the bottom of that page.

Annkatrin

Posted on October 20, 2022 07:56 PM by annkatrinrose