Dear Puente-Chino Hills Native Species Project members,

You all have made amazing contributions to this project, made for the Diamond Bar Natural History Project, designed to educate people of the webs of biodiversity within our communities. And I feel gratitude and respect towards all of you, thank you!

However, times are changing and as you may be aware, the projects have been updated on INaturalist. Using this opportunity, I decided to create a new Puente-Chino Hills project under a similar title. This new project has features such as:
-pie charts to visually display our findings
-the ability to automatically accept certain taxa

As a result of this new change, this project will legitimately accept California native species only, no non-native species will be accepted. This is not an act of discrimination towards certain observations, this is rather an act which will fulfill the project's goal of documenting the native flora and fauna of this region.

This notice is also an alert to the current project members, @renisfoxy @fundad @marcossantos @rivasca @carrieseltzer @sara_medina @glmory @rsmithnaturalist , because in about a few weeks, the original project will be deleted. It's assured that the current observations you have in the original project will be automatically uploaded to the new project.

If you have any questions about this new change, send me a message, I'll be quick and eager to respond!