Arbor Day Green Connection BioBlitz

Join the California Academy of Sciences, the SF Department of the Environment, the Department of Public Works, the SF Planning Department, Nature in the City,and Friends of the Urban Forest as we document all the plants and animals we can over the course of San Francisco's Green Connection #1.

The Green Connections are routes designed by an innovative and thoughtful team to provide habitat corridors and healthy, safe streets for walking and biking. Here's a map, of all the Green Connections

Route one, designed with Monarch butterflies in mind, runs from the Embarcadero and Filbert Streets to Lyon and Greenwich, passing by Coit Tower, Washington Square Park and Fort Mason on the way. Learn more about Green Connection #1

Bring your curiosity and tons of enthusiasm. We'll rally some experts and folks who know city nature well. Together we'll make some great discoveries, get to know the biodiversity along Green Connection #1 and each other better! Bring your smartphone and/or camera, if you have one, but your observation skills and desire to discover are the most important things to bring!

A Bio-Blitz is an intensive one-day study of biodiversity in a specific location, bringing scientists and volunteer citizen-scientists together. Together, we'll look for snails, birds, frogs, butterflies, other insects, spiders, trees, worms, flowers, and everything else we can find!

People of all ages and skill levels are welcome! Bring your smart phone for sure. Bonus: camera, binoculars, and magnifying glasses. We'll enter observations in iNaturalist and join together at the end to find out how many observations we made and how many species we found. Past blitzes in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Mateo have averaged 1000 observations and 200+ species each. Hooray!

Register at weblink.