"I love Wild Spotter - Mapping Invasives in America's Wild Places"

2022-08-06 17:13:28

Become a Wild Spotter Partner Volunteer Where To Look What To Look For Places People Partners Prevention Support Wild SpotterTM - Engaging and empowering the public to help find, map, and prevent invasive species in America's wilderness areas, wild rivers, and other natural areas. Become a Wild Spotter citizen scientist volunteer, download the Mobile App, and help protect America's Wild Places! You can help fight back against invasive species in America's wild places by downloading the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone or other mobile device. You'll learn how to identify, map, and prevent the spread of these invaders in order to protect our rivers, mountains, forests, and all wild places for future generations. Learn more by watching the Wild Spotter Introduction Video. Become a Wild Spotter Volunteers are a vital part of the Wild Spotter campaign! To become a volunteer, register either online or download the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone or other mobile device. Once registered, reach out to your nearest National Forest or Grassland to discover how you can volunteer to help support and protect these beautiful places from invasive species. Then, just get outside and enjoy America's wild places while keeping an eye out for those harmful invaders! Become a Partner Wild Spotter networks people and organizations to help manage invasive species through on-the-ground, community-based projects, partnerships, and volunteer citizen science support that increases capacity for conserving our nation's natural resources. Wild Spotter creates partnerships with public and private organizations at all levels and across all landownerships. Complete the FREE Registration form to become a Wild Spotter Partner now! Join the Network of Citizen Scientists Download the Free Mobile App Identify the Invasive Plants, Pathogens and Animals Map Locations of Invasive Species in Your Favorite Wild Places Protect America's Wild Places for Future Generations Wild Spotter Partners The Wild Spotter Mobile App Works on iPhone, iPad and Android devices Download and install the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App to map invasive species in your favorite wild places with or without cell reception. Wild Spotter Mission Wild Spotter aims to build citizen science volunteer capacity to protect America's wild places from harmful invasive plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, algae, and fungi that outcompete our nation's native species and threaten the biodiversity and health of every aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem. Promote Awareness America's wild places are home to beauty, diversity, and reflection, yet they are under attack from aquatic and terrestrial invasive species. One of the goals of Wild Spotter is to help raise public awareness about the threat of these non-native invaders, and provide fast and simple steps the public can take to prevent them from spreading into new areas. Engage the Public Wild Spotter helps you identify, map, and report invasive species found in your favorite wild places. The data you collect will help create the first-ever nationwide inventory of invasive species in America's natural areas. You can help us fight back against harmful invaders by becoming a Wild Spotter volunteer or partner. By downloading the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone, you can quickly and easily collect vital data on these invasions: location, extent, and impact - all while you are enjoying the great outdoors. Defeat Invasives The data you collect while you are visiting America's wild places will help management teams create more effective strategies to prevent and control invasive species and restore the areas they impact. By reporting data through the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App, you will be helping to protect recreational activities, such as hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, climbing as well as clean water, abundant wildlife, and all the other benefits of these wonderful wild places. Help Protect America's Wild Places Become a Wild Spotter Partner To accomplish our mission to protect America's wild places from harmful non-native plants, pathogens, and animals, Wild Spotter collaborates with public and private partners at all levels. The diversity of our partnerships helps accelerate work against the invasive species threat across all landownerships. Promoting the work of our partner organizations and volunteers who help battle invasive species is at the heart of the Wild Spotter mission. Partner efforts are promoted through the Wild Spotter website, including FREE logo placement and social media connections, as well as in print advertisements and other media. Wild Spotter promotional items such as decals, pins, clothing, posters, and other products are available to all volunteer and partner participants. Wild Places New Mexico Kiowa National Grassland Learn More Minnesota Chippewa National Forest Timberwolves, eagles, towering pines and vigorous aspen are just part of the forest ecosystem in Chippewa National Forest. Learn More New Mexico Santa Fe National Forest Visitors to this Forest can visit one of many nearby Indian pueblos, Spanish missions, and Indian ruins or hike on the 1,000 miles of hiking trails. Learn More California Sierra National Forest High elevation lakes defined by towering conifers, deeply carved river valleys and huge granite monoliths describe the Sierra National Forest. Learn More Tennessee Cherokee National Forest The Cherokee National Forest is your destination for outdoor recreation. Enjoy a scenic drive through the mountains, the pursuit of wildlife, the thrill of whitewater, a night under the stars, or solitude on a backcountry trail. Learn More Montana Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest The largest of the national forests in Montana, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge covers 3.35 million acres offering a wide variety of recreational pursuits. Learn More Colorado Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forest Approximately 2.27 million visitors experience recreation activities on the Forests including downhill skiing, snowmobiling, hunting, hiking, cross-country skiing, fishing, backcountry camping, mountain biking and off-highway vehicle use. Learn More North Dakota Little Missouri National Grassland Learn More Idaho Salmon-Challis National Forest Each year thousands of visitors come to the Salmon Challis National Forest to enjoy the diverse recreational activities it has come to be known for. Learn More Oregon Willamette National Forest The Willamette National Forest offers a stunning choice of year round recreation for day-trippers and vacationers alike from hiking, camping, fishing or skiing in the Cascade Mountains to picnicking or rafting along one of our scenic rivers. Learn More Join Wild Spotter To defeat these exotic invaders, we need to know where they are. When you spot them, use the app to make sure we get the information we need: what, where and how extensive is the impact? It's easy to do while enjoying the great outdoors. By uploading this information, you'll be helping to assemble the first-ever nationwide inventory of invasive species in America's Wilderness Areas, Wild Rivers, and other natural areas. You'll also learn how to reduce and stop the spread of these insidious invaders - and protect America's rivers, mountains, forests, and all wild places for future generations. So make a difference! Volunteer to join the Wild Spotter campaign today. Wild Spotter volunteers Volunteers are what power Wild Spotter. These are an example of volunteers who go out and map invasives in America's wild places! Rachel C. Hunter Dave M. Angler Karan R. Kayaker Brian L. Elk Hunter Powered By EDDMapS EDDMapS is a web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species distribution and there are immense numbers of invasive species observations reported each year. In turn, EDDMapS shares this data and makes it freely available to everyone. Wild Spotter is built upon the existing EDDMapS infrastructure and all data contributed becomes part of the overall database. Wild Spotter Citizen Science Volunteers Needed Help map invasive species threatening Wilderness Areas and Wild & Scenic Rivers. Become a Wild Spotter [email protected] www.wildspotter.org Recent Reports spotted lanternfly by Eric Barrettin Mahoning County, Ohioon 05-Aug-22 spotted lanternfly by Bryan Weyantin Mahoning County, Ohioon 05-Aug-22 Useful Links EDDMapS Invasive.org Wildlife Forever USDA Forest Service Website developed, maintained and hosted by the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, University of Georgia, with Wildlife ForeverQuestions and/or comments to the Bugwood Webmaster Last updated October 2018 / Privacy