Weed Week Challenge
Native wildflowers aren’t the only plants that respond to fire--sometimes weed seeds sprout or blow into burned areas. Some can even increase the frequency of fire in the future, or impact how native plants recover, so it’s important to track non-native species’ response too! Sunday, June 5th is the start of Invasive Species Action Week(June 5-13) and we will be partnering up with the California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to bring you all some new prizes to win during our weekly challenge!
Challenge Details:
Starting this Weekend, we encourage you all to go out and make as many observations as possible in any of the burn sites. There will be 5 opportunities for participants to win a CAL-IPC hat! Here are the rules for each category:
Most observations of non-native plants
Most identifications of non-native plants
Top observer of Spanish, French, Scotch or Portugese broom
Top observer of Cenchrus setaceus/Pennisetum setaceum, fountain grass
Top observer of Centaurea solstitialis, yellow starthistle
In addition to the main 5 winners, we will also be holding a raffle for those who have joined the project so far and made at least one observation of a non-native plant during the challenge! We will be raffling out 10 stickers and 10 luggage tags to 10 randomly selected winners! Just remember to join and trust the project before the end of the competition!
Best of luck to everyone!
Comments
An observation of interest that came out of my efforts to search for weeds yesterday: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/81933519
Hey @arboretum_amy , awesome observation!
Hey everyone,
We have the results from our weekly challenge! I will be contacting everyone individually, be sure to respond soon to receive your rewards!
This week there were a total of 121 observations, 86 species, 27 identifiers and 42 observers of invasive species.
Here are the winners for the CAL-IPC hats!
Most identifications of non-native plants @boschniakia w/ 44 identifications
Most observations of non-native plants @morganstickrod w/ 16 IDs and 16 species (Species was the tie breaker)
Top observer of Spanish, French, Scotch or Portugese broom @aaron_echols
Top observer of Cenchrus setaceus/Pennisetum setaceum, fountain grass @arboretum_amy (also tied for top observer)
Top observer of Centaurea solstitialis, yellow starthistle @pummelwhack
Additionally, I went ahead and randomly selected 10 winners for the stickers/luggage tags:
@aaron_echols
@andrekhuu
@apatten
@cwarneke
@susanfawcett
@catchang
@emilyearthquake
@charlescrussell
@lucastia
@joan_hamilton
Thank you to everyone who participated, and be sure to keep an eye out this week for an announcement of our upcoming challenge for pollinator week!
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