Check out our Picture Post project at Nichols Natural Area!
All you need is your camera to be a citizen scientist!
We recently installed a Picture Post at Nichols Natural Area. The post is an environmental monitoring station, and we need volunteers to collect and share data, which can be done anytime you visit the site. All you need is a digital camera to capture nine specific photos from the Picture Post and then load them on the website. The photos contribute to a NASA funded national monitoring network called the Digital Earth Watch. Scientists will use the photos to track environmental changes, plant phenology, and climate change.
Check out the Post Project in person, Nichols Natural Area is located front of the Hampton Inn (1 Nichols Parkway, Hood River, OR).
About Picture Post Program
Picture Posts sites enhance community efforts to conserve, promote, and sustain their open spaces and natural areas with digital cameras and smartphones routinely used as scientific tools. Learn about picture post and see the photos from Nichols Natural Area. Learn more
About Nichols Natural Area
The abandoned industrial site, in the heart of Hood River’s waterfront, can once again teem with life. After the Nichols Boat Works operated from 1939 to 1998, the property sat vacant and weedy for over a decade. The City of Hood River acquired the three acres, and in 2015 Columbia Riverkeeper agreed to hold a conservation easement to protect the land. Now, Riverkeeper and community partners are working to restore it. Learn more
See the latest posts of the Nichols Natural Area that will help us to track growth and monitor environmental changes.
