This month and next, teams along the border are heading out into nature to document what they see as part of the Border BioBlitz citizen science project.
Participants in this year’s Border BioBlitz will take photos of plants, animals and fungi they see within 15 kilometers on either side of the border and upload them to the iNaturalist app.
More than 20 teams are signed up for the citizen science project, and they include participants along the entire border.
Anyone can participate, even nonscientists, organizer Ben Wilder said. The photos uploaded to the app create data to help researchers better understand the region.
“Just trying to expand our concept of what the borderlands is is always important and never more so than right now,” Wilder said.
The project runs for the entire months of April and May.
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