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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — For the second time, Lake County has its own entry in the worldwide "City Nature Challenge," a four-day event which encourages "citizen scientists" to use their phones or cameras to submit observations of all forms of life to further develop the inaturalist.org catalog of the world's life forms.
Between Friday April 24 and Monday April 27, observations submitted to inaturalist.org will be logged into Lake County's project as part of this competition.
Anyone can participate with the inaturalist app or at the inaturalist.org web site.
People can observe on their own, or can take part in any of three special events, called "bioblitzes" where a group explores an area with some flexible guidance.
The events, all starting at 9:30 a.m., begin with a gathering at Clear Lake State Park on Friday, April 24, meeting at the beach parking area.
Then on Saturday, April 25, participants are invited to the University of California managed McLaughlin Preserve, 26775 Morgan Valley Rd, 13 miles east of Lower Lake, meeting promptly at 9:30 a.m. up the hill at the reserve's main office.
Then on Sunday, April 26, they will meet at the small parking area for Boggs Lake Ecological Preserve on Harrington Flat Road.
In 2016, organizers from the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History and the California Academy of Sciences started the "City Nature Challenge" with the metropolitan areas of San Francisco bay and Los Angeles engaging in a friendly competition to document as many forms of life as their citizen scientists could.
By 2025, the annual event had grown to include nearly 700 competing geographic areas, with over three million observations of approximately 74,000 species and over 100,000 participants.
The Lake County Project and more information is at https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2026-lake-county-california.
More information is given there as the project's journal entries.
Questions can be addressed to lakeconature@livewild.org. Sending email to that address is recommended for more specific directions and a contact phone number.