Join the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston Audubon, Galveston Bay Foundation, the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, Armand Bayou Nature Center, Texas Master Naturalists, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and over 30 other wonderful groups for a fun challenge to observe and record wild species from April 25 – April 28, 2025. It is easy to participate by making observations on your own using the iNaturalist app. With the iNaturalist app, you just take a picture of a plant or animal, and the community will help identify which species it is. Any observation in the greater metropolitan area of Houston will count during the four-day challenge. You can participate by exploring the life in your backyard (and use the hashtag #backyardchallenge on social media), in your neighborhood park, or from an apartment balcony or courtyard. You can also help with IDs for other people’s observations to increase our species count.

The City Nature Challenge is organized by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences.

[VSP hours to be recorded in VMS under: “iNaturalist, eBird and Other Citizen Science: TMN Report Hours”] Maximum 18 hours per day