Biodiversity on the Web: Cheyenne Bottoms on iNaturalist.org

The Kansas Wetlands Education Center needs your help! We would like to document the many species that call Cheyenne Bottoms home, and need you to help contribute to that list. With this goal KWEC has started a citizen science project to document the biodiversity at Cheyenne Bottoms using iNaturalist.org.

iNaturalist.org is a free, web-based collaborative where anyone can upload observations of wild organisms along with pictures and descriptions. The objective is to create a large database anyone can access to see what can be found and where. This helps officials to manage the area and allows everyone to see what is going on at the wetlands. Anyone can join the project for free at iNaturalist.org and begin to submit observations to the Kansas Wetlands Education Center: Cheyenne Bottoms Biodiversity project site. For those with smartphones, there is a free application which will allow for uploading observations in the field. Please join the KWEC Cheyenne Bottoms biodiversity project and contribute to our understanding of the natural world.

About Brian Tanis

Brian Tanis is a Graduate Assistant at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center. A New Jersey native, Brian received his undergraduate degrees at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania specializing in mammalian ecology. Currently Brian is completing a Master's degree at Fort Hays State University exploring the impacts of wind turbines on the mammalian scavenging community.

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