Alaska Soles • Entered by Loren Karro on August 16, 2022
Alaska Wildflower Bioblitz
June 23, 2022 – July 15, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 2 |
| Activity Hours | 27 |
| Participants | 4 |
| Total Hours | 112 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Alaska Native Plant society
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: plants categorized (50 plants)
Outcome 2: Advocacy actions
Short Description of Activity
Photoed, identified and filed photos of plants with I-Naturalist for the Alaska Wildflower Bioblitz
Reflection/Evaluation
Goal was to see what wildflowers/plants were identified in what areas, if any new plants/flowers were found, if any more invasives had entered into the country, throughout Alaska. We first went on a hike to learn the program and how to use it. We then did some hikes together and some alone and Loren did 8 days in the Chugach backcountry with 4 others and photoed flowers every day. We found a rare variety of the Poppy in the exact same spot where we first saw it 11 years ago on a specific mountain ridge, and did not see it anywhere but there (there were over a dozen plants of it on the ridge). As there were as little as 1 person and as many as 4 participating at a time, i totaled all of the hours and divided by 4 so that the total number of hours came out correctly.
Photos/Uploads
Photo Captions
Photo 1: Loren takes a breather while Kathy snaps a plant picture,
Photo 2: Kathy, trying to take a plant picture, realizes the camera lens is reversed!
Photo 3: Up top, where it was so dry that the lichen crunched loudly.
PHoto 4: Methow Valley Broad Terry Karro hikes in the Chugach, camera in hand