[APWG] NEWS: Citizen Scientist Program's Success Highlighted (fwd)

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.wildflower.org/press/index.php?link=press&id=198

Citizen Scientist Program's Success Highlighted

A program that harnesses volunteers throughout Texas to collect 
conservation data has been highlighted as a model citizen scientist 
program in the June issue of the journal Bioscience. More than 1,100 
Texans have been trained by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's 
Invaders of Texas citizen science program to identify and report 
non-native invasive plants throughout the state. These citizen scientists 
have logged more than 12,000 observations of invasive plants on a 
publicly accessible online database that governmental agencies and 
resource managers can use to monitor the plants that compete with native 
plants (http://www.texasinvasives.org/invaders/).

Damon E. Waitt, Ph.D.
Senior Director & Botanist
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
University of Texas at Austin
4801 La Crosse Ave. Austin, Texas 78739-1702
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email: dwaitt at wildflower.org
phone: 512.232.0110
fax: 512.232.0156