{"id":4570,"date":"2020-01-01T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2020-01-01T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:35:08","slug":"inaturalists-observed-88-of-the-known-vascular-flora-of-ontario-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4570","title":{"rendered":"iNaturalists observed  88% of the known vascular flora of Ontario in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The 2019 Big Year was a huge success. Over 200,000 observations were submitted to the project. That&#8217;s ten times the number of observations submitted to the first Big Year in 2018. Every single municipality and ecoregion in the province was represented this year and a total of 3,150 species were observed, 2,906 of which were vascular plants (Tracheophyta). Approximately 3,300 species of vascular plants are known to occur in Ontario which means that approximately 88% of the known vascular flora of Ontario was observed this year!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>View more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/2019-ontario-botanists-big-year\/journal\">2019 Ontario Botanists&#8217; Big Year&#8217;s News<\/a> (post by Will Van Hemessen  on iNaturalist, Jan 1, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Halifax did pretty well in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/city-nature-challenge-2019-halifax-regional-municipality\">2019 iNaturalist City Nature Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-01-at-9.31.18-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-01-at-9.31.18-PM-300x130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-01-at-9.31.18-PM-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-01-at-9.31.18-PM.png 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>HFN is participating in the organization of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/city-nature-challenge-2020-halifax-regional-municipality\">(2020) City Nature Challenge<\/a> scheduled for April 24-27, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The 2019 Big Year was a huge success. Over 200,000 observations were submitted to the project. That&#8217;s ten times the number of observations submitted to the first Big Year in 2018. Every single municipality and ecoregion in the province was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}