4/26/2024 - 4/29/2024
April 26th - 29th

Participate in the City Nature Challenge

City Nature Challenge 2024: April 26 - April 29

Each year, the South Dakota Discovery Center organizes in the City Nature Challenge, an international event that challenges people to observe nature the last weekend of April. Join with people from more than 500 communities around the world and make observations of wild plants and animals on iNaturalist. All you need is a camera (your phone will do) and an iNaturalist account (Sign up for an iNaturalist account here. Get the app: iOS, Android). 

There are two ways to participate. The first way is to make observations in the Pierre/Fort Pierre City Nature Challenge geographic region which encompasses Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley and Sully Counties. Any observation that is uploaded to iNaturalist from those areas, whether it is from a backyard or the middle of the Grasslands, is added to our City Nature Challenge project.

If you can't make it to Central South Dakota that weekend, you can still participate in the City Nature Challenge Global Project. You will need to join the project on iNaturalist and any observations you make will automatically be added.

If you are new to iNaturalist, check out these resources. Getting started with iNaturalist, Video tutorials, iNat or iNot: Does this observation belong on iNat for the City Nature Challenge?
 

Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley and Sully Counties.
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