Native Plant Week
Happy Native Plant Month! At CNPS, we are celebrating all month long, so come check out some of the event coming up: https://www.cnps.org/california-native-plant-week
Native Plant Challenge:
April 16, 2022 – April 30, 2022
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CA Native Plant Week started this past Saturday, and to celebrate, we will be adding to the April Challenges! Link journal from each project
Starting NOW, we encourage everyone to go out and make as many observations as possible! You will have until Saturday, April 30th to make as many Native Plants observations as possible. The top two naturalists with the most native plant observations will get a Fire Followers Pin!
Quick Note
Our CA 2020 Fire Followers project is currently at around 85.6k observations! We are currently doing some preliminary data analysis and comparing pre and post fire observations in relation to fire intensity. Rare species represent unique diversity in a given area, and many of California’s rare plants emerge after fire. Observations of rare species are obscured automatically, and it would be helpful to know where these plants are so we can tell how they were affected by fire. If you would join and “trust” the project it would allow us to use the true coordinates for our data analysis but they would still remain hidden for everyone else.
We ask if you have not yet joined and trusted the project, that you would consider doing so. Thank you all for your contributions to the project so far and I can't wait to reach 100,000 observations soon!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/california-fire-followers-2020
April Events
Save Mount Diablo Bioblitz
April 16 - 30
HAPPENING NOW! What better place to participate in the Native Plant Challenge than at the Diablo Range within the SCU Lightning Complex fire footprint.
Join Save Mount Diablo’s (SMD) largest BioBlitz yet! SMD will be covering the SCU Lightning Complex fire footprint throughout a two-week period. With your help, we can monitor the plants, animals, and fungi, popping up throughout the burned sites. We encourage everyone to go and explore the Diablo Range and participate in monitoring post fire recovery.
Check out their Bioblitz info/iNat training video here:
City Nature Challenge Weekend at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
April 30
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park needs our help to catalog the thousands of plants, animals, and fungi that can be seen in the park. Join Sugarloaf docents on an easy walk along the Creekside Nature and Meadow trails.
1) Senderos: Reto NaturaLista Urbano en Sugarloaf | 9 - 11:30 am
2) Bioblitz Introductory Hike – CNC Weekend at Sugarloaf | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
3) Sugarloaf Flora- CNC Weekend at Sugarloaf | 10 am - 12:00 pm
4) CNC Weekend at Sugarloaf: Butterfly Walk | 12 - 1:30 pm
Register for free to these events and more at Sugarloaf Ridge SP: https://sugarloafpark.org/events/
City Nature Challenge
April 29 - May 2
The California Academy of Sciences' City Nature Challenge is a world-wide bioblitz. Support their goal to collect as many iNaturalist observations as possible in one weekend in participating cities and surrounding areas! This is a fun and COVID-safe way to explore, learn about nature, and collect important data used by researchers and land managers. You can make observations of any species you encounter! Be sure to join your city and keep an eye out for events near you: https://www.calacademy.org/community-science/city-nature-challenge
Burn Area Spotlight
Areas that re-opened this month:
Angeles National Forest: Bobcat Fire Closure https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1008625
Approximately 86,000 acres of the 143,000 acres closed for public safety and/or natural resource protection within the Angeles National Forest due to the 2020 Bobcat Fire reopened to the public on April 1.
Eldorado National Forest: Caldor Fire https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd1008718.pdf
Beginning April 1, most of the Caldor fire area in the Eldorado National Forest is open for public access. Visitors are reminded to use extra caution when recreating in this part of the forest due the hazards in recently burned landscapes.
San Bernardino National Forest: El Dorado Fire https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sbnf/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1008965
San Bernardino National Forest managers reopened areas closed due to the 2020 El Dorado Fire
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