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The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board (MPRB) is starting off a yearlong project to engage with communities to help survey and document species in parks through "BioBlitz" events, funded by a Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund grant received by the MPRB.
Three parks have been selected, and one of them is Minnehaha Regional Park. The first BioBlitz at Minnehaha Park is Sept. 14, 2024 and a second and third will occur in winter and spring of 2025.
A bioblitz brings together all kinds of people to find and identify plants, animals, and other organisms in a specific place over a limited period of time.
Citizen Scientists, regular people of all ages, will gather at Minnehaha Regional Park on Sept. 14 to volunteer, make observations and document species found in the park using an app called iNaturalist. Through photographing and uploading them onto the app or a device, they will share information and generate valuable biodiversity data for scientists and researchers and for all people.
The Friends of Minnehaha Park will be partnering with the Park Board, Audubon Society Minneapolis Chapter and other community organizations to support the events as the Park Board kicks off this project.
Participate and sign up through the MPRB to attend one or more sessions in the day.
Sign up yourself or yourself and your family or group as a volunteer participant in the event at https://form.jotform.com/241836521863157
The day will be divided into three sessions, an early morning 1.5 hour birding program, and then two longer survey sessions in the morning and in the early afternoon.
There will be experts on hand at a variety of activity stations to help participants explore different kinds of life in the park and learn more about them. This will be a family friendly event.
You have the option of signing up for as many or as few sessions as you would like. *More details to follow on what identification stations will be offered during each session.
Coffee will be offered in the morning for the early morning birding program and for session two.
If you choose to sign up for sessions two and three, a light lunch will be provided in between the sessions.
Session 1: Early birding program - 7:30-9 a.m.
Session 2: 9:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Session 3: noon - 2:15 p.m.
Bioblitz Goals:
• collect data on a wide range of species
• entice people to explore Minneapolis parks year round
• introduce park users to helpful plant and wildlife identification apps like Seek, Merlin, and iNaturalist,
• generate data for habitat restoration planners and community members
• highlight biodiversity in the city
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