LMNGBR Observations's Journal

January 1, 2022

Get fired up for big iNat events in 2022

The BREC Conservation bioblitz is April 8&9 at Forest Community Park. A great opportunity to explore nature and practice using iNaturalist and provide biodiversity data for park planning.
https://www.brec.org/index.cfm/page/bioblitz

And the big event: City Nature Challenge 2022 is April 29 - May 2, 2022!

Can the Baton Rouge region win the friendly competition against Southwest Louisiana, the cities in neighboring states, and beyond?

The BR iNat project for 2022: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-baton-rouge
The global iNat project for 2022: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022
More information: http://www.brnaturechallenge.org

Posted on January 1, 2022 06:06 PM by amberenergy amberenergy | 0 comments | Leave a comment

February 19, 2021

Lots of iNat fun in April 2021

We have some great opportunities to document biodiversity coming up in April!

CNC

The main event is the City Nature Challenge - this is Baton Rouge's first year participating in the event. It is April 30 - May 3 and the goals are to:
1) Get the public to explore nature by adding observations to iNat
2) Document biodiversity
3) Win the friendly competition for most species and most observations against New Orleans and Lake Charles.

The Baton Rouge City Nature Challenge area consists of: Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, Tangipahoa, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana. Any observations made in these parishes during the event will automatically be aggregated in our project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021-baton-rouge.

Please encourage public participation! More info and a flyer:
http://www.brnaturechallenge.org.

The umbrella project for the CNC, including all of the participating cities:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021. It is so much fun to see what other cities are finding!

Rendezvous

In lieu of an in-person event, the Louisiana Master Naturalist Association is hosting a virtual Rendezvous this year. The festivities will include a scavenger hunt April 3 - April 24, and the iNat project for that is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lmna-2021-scavenger-hunt. Register to participate at: https://www.louisianamasternaturalist.org.

BREC BioBlitz

BREC's annual bioblitz is on April 17 at Zachary Community Park. Look for information and registration here soon: https://www.brec.org/index.cfm/page/bioblitz.

Hilltop Long-Term Survey

Not just in April - LMNGBR is running a long-term biodiversity survey of LSU Hilltop Arboretum and we could use your observations any time of year for this project! Any observations made by visitors at Hilltop are automatically included in the project.
Hilltop iNat project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/hilltop-arboretum-species-survey.

For quick access to any of these projects, there is a "join" button in the top right corner of each project. After you join, you can quickly access your Projects in your profile menu.

Thank you for your participation!

Posted on February 19, 2021 11:30 PM by amberenergy amberenergy | 0 comments | Leave a comment

October 28, 2020

Halloween BioBlitz 2020

LMNGBR is participating in a bioblitz at Atelier de la Nature on All Hallows' Eve. Watch your e-mail and the LMNGBR private Facebook Group for information from Katherine Gividen. You can drop in for any amount of time and you also have the option to camp overnight.

Here is the iNaturalist project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/atelier-de-la-nature. Any iNaturalist observations made in St. Martin Parish will automatically be included in the project.

It should be a spooktacular event!

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December 3, 2018

Related projects

LMNGBR has a few additional projects that you may be interested in as well:

The ongoing LMNGBR BioBlitz Project at Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge, LA
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/hilltop-arboretum-bioblitz

Marcy's Place - Private land that we periodically explore by invitation, St. Gabriel, LA
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/marcy-s-place

LMNA Rendezvous 2018 BioBlitz, Camp Hardtner, Pollock, LA
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lmna-2018-rendezvous

LMNGBR Spring 2018 Arthropods/Nocturnal Naturalist Workshop
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lmngbr-arthropod-nocturnal-naturalist-workshop-spring-2018

LMNGBR Fall 2018 Arthropods/Nocturnal Naturalist Workshop
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lmngbr-fall-arthropod-nocturnal-naturalist-workshop

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