All Species Community Big Year
From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
Combinging ideas from bioblitz and birding's big year, we have the All Species Community Big Year (ASCBY) project idea. Like a bioblitz, the goal is to document/report as many different species as possible in an area with as much public participation as possible. Like a big year, the project takes place over the course of a calendar year, thereby allowing observation and/or documentation of species that may not be feasible to observe during the a limited period bioblitz.
- Mini-blitz/cleanups.
- Specialist speakers with weekend outings
- Regular (monthly?) gatherings to share collections/photos/observations
- Regular (monthly?) outings by locations and/or themes?
- Open Mics with nature themes?
- Nature grind (connections to place).
We did a version of this in 2017 [1]
