Speakers:  John Tandy of Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area and Bruce Benz of Texas Wesleyn University

The 2016 Tandy Hills Natural Area BioBlitz will focus on documenting all living species at the park over a continuous 36-hour time period. Specifically, scientists and naturalists will lead and supervise this photo documentation and data collection blitz. The results form a permanent andvaluable snapshot of biological life at Tandy Hills. Community members and volunteers are invited to observe science in action and participate by making their own contributions via iNaturalist while exploring the urban prairie. BioBlitz data gathering is important to Tandy Hill's conservation mission for two reasons. It motivates and engages community participation and the resulting data serves as a permanent scientific record for current and future management of Tandy's natural resources.