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

Come join us for public bioblitz #2, taking place in East Tennessee on Saturday, July 11, 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 Bioblitz event with a focus on plants, birds and butterflies in the TVA Whites Creek Small Wild Area in Tennessee on Watts Bar Lake in Rhea County.

Directions: either use 736 E. Roddy Road, Spring City, TN 37381 address in your vehicle GPS.
Or, take I-40 to the Rockwood exit and then get on Rt 27 South toward Spring City for almost exactly 15 miles, turn left onto E. Roddy Road, and drive about .8 mile to the TWRA launching area where the main trailhead is located, and where we will have our DLIA sign and pole tents.

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 865-430-4757 or e-mail todd at dlia.org .

Observational data will be submitted online via iNaturalist. There will be a short training session at the bioblitz site prior to going out into the field.

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The bioblitz, in East-Central Tennessee at TVA's White's Creek Wild Area, along Watts Bar Lake, on July 11th, is now history.  The inventory of living things there went very well. Check back soon to see a report of what we found!