Big Hill Park iNaturalist Places

I love iNaturalist – not a paid advertisement. I love that iNaturalist not only helps you identify plants, animals, insects, and those strange spots on leaves (insect eggs, most likely) that you find on your hiking adventures, but also adds to a collective research database. What can the database do? Well, a lot!

According to iNaturalist, May Apples bloomed around May 9th this year.

If you would like to help add to Big Hill Park’s iNaturalist database, we have two separate places: 

• Big Hill Park (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=44983) 

• Big Hill Prairie (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=155493)  

Big Hill Park is the full park. Big Hill Prairie (area around the Center) is a subsection. If you post a picture that appears in the prairie it will also show up in the park, but not vice versa. You don’t have to do anything special to post to these places. Your camera will time and GPS stamp your pictures, so all you have to do is upload them to the site. Then other members will confirm or suggest identifications that may or may not agree with your own. It is super fun and easy!

I hope to see you out hiking and taking pictures soon!