Land Trust Spotlight: Blue Ridge Conservancy
Just a quick spotlight on a local Land Trust of the Southeast, doing great things to protect the unique biodiversity of the High Country.
Useful tools and resources for plant/animal ID
Why AI? With AI becoming increasingly integrated into our lives, I've embraced it as a tool to enhance my work, studies, and for fun! Primarily, I use these tools to confirm my plant ID, but sometimes I also rely on tools for bird calls, herping, and identifying a particularly perplexing insect. Generally, I consider myself an intermediate-to-expert at flora and fauna in the southeast region, but the further I get from North Carolina, the less accurate I become. I'll be the first to admit uncertainty, and in those cases I often have an app or a resource I rely upon to point me in the right direction. It's much easier to pull out my phone and try to identify something - rather than keying out plant species like I have had to do on many occasions for work that relied upon the correct wetland plant ID. Often times you get the correct answer, or you get close enough to use your results as a starting point for further research. I've experimented with various tools, but I alw...
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