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The Tennessee Valley Authority and Discover Life in America are serious about the importance of Biodiversity!

Come join us for a public bioblitz in North Carolina on Saturday, June 20, 2015!
This Bioblitz is a short, one-day (9 am to 6 pm) event.  Generally bioblitzes are an intense team effort to discover as many different life forms as possible in one location. Teams of volunteer scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to find and identify as many species of plants, animals, microbes, fungi, and other organisms as they can. On this day's bioblitz, Discover Life in America (DLIA) has partnered with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) along with regional scientists to host this event with a focus on plants, birds and butterflies in the TVA Raven Rock Small Wild Area in North Carolina, just downstream of the Hiwassee Dam.

Why do we have BioBlitzes?
BioBlitzes are designed to increase the public's awareness of the variety of life in their immediate neighborhood and the services these various species provide to improve the quality of their lives. We usually hear the word "biodiversity" in regard to rainforests, with their vast number of species. Yet the diversity of life in our own backyards is phenomenal.

BioBlitzes also help to:

  • - Engage students in community geography and citizen science
  • - Identify species that should be monitored and controlled
  • - Make recommendations towards public land management and conservation
  • - Generate data for use in protection and management
  • - Highlight the positive impact of parks and open spaces on our lives
  • - And celebrate diversity with DLIA!

 

It’s totally FREE and we invite everyone (no experience necessary) to join us to celebrate the importance of biodiversity formally through the BioBlitz! Registration required. Call 865-430-4756 or e-mailheather@dlia.org.

Observational data will be submitted online via iNaturalist. We will have a special training session on June 19th. (click for more info) However, there will also be a short training session at the bioblitz site prior to going out into the field.

View observations from TVA Raven Rock, NC Bioblitz on iNaturalist.org »

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The bioblitz, in Southwestern North Carolina at TVA's Raven Rock Wild Area on June 20, is now history.  The inventory of living things there went very well. About 385 observations were made. Check back soon to see a report of what we found!
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