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Join Discover Life in America, TVA for a free, family-friendly BioblitzGet to know biodiversity in your own backyard and help TVA better manage natural areas by cataloging different types of organisms (plants, insects and other animals, fungi, and more). Help us discover what lives at the Laurel Point recreation area on Racoon Mountain.
Join us for an evening of discoveries...we will continue in the dark, as we will set up a black light to monitor insect populations!
What’s a bioblitz?
During a bioblitz, volunteers help document as many kinds of animals, plants, and other organisms as we can find in a specific area. It’s also an opportunity for you to be a community scientist, gathering real scientific data, while also learning about the local flora and fauna living around you. We will be walking the trails, looking for bugs, flowers, salamanders, and other living organisms. We’ll photograph them with our phones and post pictures to our iNaturalist project. It’ll be a fun outdoor time in a gorgeous natural space and we’ll have experts on hand to guide small groups point out interesting facts about the organisms we see, and teach you how to use the iNaturalist app.
Register here:
https://givebutter.com/raccoon-mtn-bioblitz
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Laurel+Point,+Raccoon+Mountain/@35.0449352,-85.4179163,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8860598b673f924b:0xfb69c1674ca5a2b5!8m2!3d35.0449352!4d-85.4179163!16s%2Fg%2F11bysjn_cb?entry=ttu
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Laurel Point Trail @ Racoon Mtn, Chattanooga,TN,United States