City Nature Challenge 2025: Kitsap County
Let’s go Kitsap County! With your help, we will make the most observations of species, and deepen our understanding of the biodiversity of our neighborhoods, parks and shorelines.
April 25-28, 2025
CITY NATURE CHALLENGE 2025
WHAT IS THE CITY NATURE CHALLENGE?
Started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in and around their cities, using biodiversity recording apps and platforms like iNaturalist. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the CNC is an annual four-day global urban bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.
The 2025 City Nature Challenge will be April 25 – 28. Last year there were 2,436,844 observations of 65,682+ species by 83,528 participants!
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
Use iNaturalist to make and share observations of wild plants, animals and fungi anywhere in Kitsap County. Any observations you make in the geographic area for Kitsap County are already included!
- 2025 Observation Time Frame: 4/25– 4/28
- 2025 Observation Upload & Making ID’s: 4/29 – 5/4
- 2025 Results Announced: 5/5/25
Be sure to stay up to date with CNC by keeping in touch with IslandWood via social media, our websites, and newsletters.
We are so grateful to our educational partnership with the Bainbridge Island Land Trust, BI Parks & Trails Foundation, Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District, Kitsap County Environmental Coalition, Kitsap County Parks, Great Peninsula Conservancy, Washington State University, Bloedel Reserve, Kitsap Audubon, and Kitsap County Noxious Weeds!
WHERE DO I MAKE OBSERVATIONS USING INATURALIST?
We encourage you to visit your own neighborhood, backyard, and our local parks and public lands here in Kitsap County to make your observations.
- Public Spaces
- Interactive map of parks and trails – Parks & Trails Finder | Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District (biparks.org)
- Printable maps – Printable Maps | Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District (biparks.org)
- Fold out maps are available for pick up at the Bainbridge Island Recreation Center (11700 Meadowmeer Cr NE) and the Bainbridge Island Aquatic Center (8521 Madison Ave N), the Chamber of Commerce, and City Hall
I’M NOT ON BAINBRIDGE ISLAND OR IN KITSAP COUNTY – CAN I STILL PARTICIPATE?
You betcha! The steps are the same. Visit the City Nature Challenge website or just use iNaturalist to make and share sightings of wild plants, animals and fungi anywhere. Observations you make in your geographic area are welcome and encouraged!
Most importantly HAVE FUN, learn something new, and remember that citizen/community science is contributing to larger bodies of scientific knowledge and data everyday.
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