Redondo Beach’s Wilderness Park BioBlitzed
South Bay Parkland Conservancy volunteers document Wilderness Park plant and wildlife for researchers, worldwide. by Emery Min A BioBlitz of Hopkins Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach took place last month, for the first time, led by South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC) volunteers Tommy Lacy and Kylie Etter. BioBlitzs are crowdsource-style biological surveys meant to log an area’s plants, animals and other species for researchers. BioBlitz lead Kylie Etter demonstrates how to take observations and document species on the iNaturalist app. Photos by Emery Min During the Sunday, September 27 BioBlitz of Wilderness Park, Lacy, Etter, and the students and fellow volunteers who accompanied them, recorded their observations of the park’s plants, insects, birds and other biological creatures on their phones, in their iNaturalist apps. iNaturalist was founded in 2008 as a masters project by three students at the UC Berkeley School of Information. It has become a crowdsourcing atlas of life on Earth. iNaturalist has received over 300 million observations and discovered or rediscovered over 550,000 species, according to iNaturalist.org. A local student group examines the pond, SBPC’s latest…
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