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Get outside and explore! Ten steps to hold your own bioblitz

A walk in the woods or a local park is always a great way to get outside and enjoy nature, but what if you could help contribute to your community at the same time? All across the world, citizen scientists are hosting and joining bioblitzes as a way to do just that. At a bioblitz, community members join together to find and document as many different species as they can, using smartphones or cameras. According to the California Academy of Sciences, “Bioblitzes not only help land managers build a species list and atlas for their park, they also highlight the incredible biodiversity in these urban oases.”

Interested in holding your own bioblitz? AJ Wacaser and Colleen Mahoney from the Coastal Redwood Biomimicry Network in California have put together ten tips that they’ve learned from hosting bioblitzes. Read on to learn how to throw a fun and successful bioblitz in your neck of the woods.