Bioblitz near Portland, Oregon

[anne kilmer]

You could double that with a bucket of pond water and a microscope, I
betcha. Or can't you count protists and soil critters. 
 Borrow some screens from the local archaeologists ... the sky's the
limit. (And, speaking of that, tow some flypaper from a balloon, and
you'll get spiderlings and midges and all sorts of flotsam.) 
Anne Kilmer
Mayo

"R.J. Cannings & M. Holm" wrote:
> 
> John et al:
> 
> The final total here was 683 (the plant people added a few more...).  I'd
> like to get some good moth and bug people involved next year and gun for
> 1000.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dick Cannings
> 1330 Debeck Road
> S11, C96, RR#1
> Naramata, BC   V0H 1N0
> CANADA
> 
> (250) 496-4049
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Acorn <janature at compusmart.ab.ca>
> To: <ecosys at pacbell.net>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> Cc: <mholm at vip.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Bioblitz near Portland, Oregon
> 
> > Lepsters,
> >
> > Jeffrey Caldwell mentioned a bioblitz, and since I just got back from one,
> > associated with the Meadowlark Festival in Penticton, British Columbia,
> > Canada, I thought I would give my impressions.  We tallied about 602
> species
> > (final count not yet in), and did a great deal, I hope, to raise local
> > awareness of the rich diversity in the Okanagan region of Canada.  I
> hosted
> > a wrap-up count-call event, in which we had musical entertainment
> > interspersed with reports on the numbers of species we identified in
> various
> > taxa.  People seemed to enjoy it, and found it interesting to hear from
> > naturalists in a variety of fields.
> >
> > Two years back I was involved in another, as part of the Texas Tropics
> > Nature Festival, in McAllen, Texas, and there we counted 997 species.  I
> > think the main determinant of your total number is the amount of botanical
> > and entomological expertise you have on hand.  The birders and butterfly
> > people pretty well know how many species they will find before the event
> > transpires, and between them it's tough to beat 300.  If you have good
> moth
> > people, another hundred might be added.  Past that, and you have to rely
> on
> > things like fungi, flowers, and beetles.  2000 sounds like a tough number
> to
> > me.  These events are a lot of fun, and they really do challenge you to
> make
> > quick, accurate identifications in the field, at whatever level you can
> > muster.
> >
> > John Acorn
> > Alberta, Canada
> >