vacant land survey of metro phoenix

We're surveying and cataloging the flora and fauna that live on the vacant and leftover lands of metro Phoenix. You can help by joining iNaturalist and/or downloading the app. The next time you spot a piece of vacant land start taking photos of plants, bugs, birds and any other creature you may come across. Upload the photos using the app or upload to our project on the iNaturalist website found below. Identify them if you can or just take your best guess. We and the iNaturalist community will help identify the exact species you've discovered. It doesn't matter how small, every contribution will help our understanding of the biodiversity of our city. Note: always get permission when entering private property.

This is one of several citizen scientist projects that we are running through iNaturalist. iNaturalist is a citizen science project and online social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. Observations may be added via the website or from a mobile application. The observations provide valuable open data to a variety of scientific research projects, museums, botanic gardens, parks, and other organizations. Users of iNaturalist have contributed over six million observations since its founding in 2008, and the project has been called "a standard-bearer for natural history mobile applications."