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Invented by community science staff, Lila Higgins at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) and Alison Young and Rebecca Johnson at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), the City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It’s a bioblitz-style competition where cities are in a friendly contest with each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people. 

Join the Rock River Valley Team in 2024!

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-rock-river-valley

The Rock River Valley team makes observations in Winnebago, Boone, Ogle, Stephenson, and DeKalb counties! You don't have to officially join the project, as long as you upload your observations from one of those 5 counties!

Join a team of global citizen scientists, like these folks below!