After an influential career of over thirty-one years at the New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP), Steve Young retired this past...

5 Quick Tips for Taking Photos of Invasive Species for iMapInvasives Beech leaf disease (likely caused by the invasive nematode, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii ), submitted by an iMap user for record 1138198. Cameras are ubiquitous, and photographing the world around us has become more and more accessible. We rely on help from community scientists and professionals alike to keep an eye out for invasive species and report them to iMapInvasives, and attaching a photograph is the

What is confirming?? When I heard that I would be confirming invasive species records – I thought to myself, what does that even mean? At the time, I didn’t really know what iMapInvasives was, other than I had the app and I could report these species. Soon, I learned that “confirming” meant looking at records that the public submits to iMapInvasives and verifying that it is indeed the species reported. I thought "how cool that would be!" Being a part of the process, contribut