יומן של City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro

Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 29th - May 2nd. Save the date!

Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
January 18th, 2022 at 10AM
via Zoom

To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will reach out with additional information closer to the date.

Other links:

• Regional CNC website: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge
• CNC 2021 Chicago Metro project summary
• Other Chicago Metro journal posts from 2021
• May 18th wrap-up planning meeting notes here

Thinking of planning an event?
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, we will be collecting all events and displaying them on our regional hub. Example events include:

• bioblitz
• guided nature hikes
• iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
• virtual identification party or nature storytelling
• sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
• learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
• urban nature trivia Zoom