2025 AVI KWA AME SPRING BIOBLITZ - DAY TWO
Walking Box Ranch
, united states
Event description
2025 AVI KWA AME NATIONAL MONUMENT SPRING BIOBLITZ // DAY TWO
We’re celebrating Avi Kwa Ame National Monument’s second anniversary with a three day Spring BioBlitz! Have fun and help us document the monument’s biodiversity as we embark on plant and animal surveys, go on hikes, take workshops, learn about the monument and more from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27.
PLEASE NOTE:
- There are several events on each day, many with overlapping times. Please only RSVP for the events that you will be attending to make sure that the limited spaces remain available. There will be a few walk-in slots available for all events, so if the event you are interested in is booked up, know that you may be able to join in day-of.
- Each day of the bioblitz has its own event page. This is the event page for DAY TWO of the Bioblitz. Please refer to BIOBLITZ DAY ONE and BIOBLITZ DAY THREE to RSVP for those day's events.
- All events begin and end at Walking Box Ranch. If your activity takes place in another monument location, you will be meeting with your group and caravanning there from Walking Box Ranch.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
For more information about these events, and for details that will help you plan your trip, please refer to our information page HERE.
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 1
| TIME | EVENT NAME | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION & MORE INFO |
| 6AM-9AM | THRASHERQUEST! | Participants will help Great Basin Bird Observatory biologists and volunteers by revisiting some of the territories identified on 2024 surveys to document thrashers (and everything else we can find)! Binoculars are useful. (40 total participants for 5 groups) |
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| 8AM-10AM | INTRO TO BIRD OBSERVATION @ WEE THUMP WILDERNESS | Join naturalists from Red Rock Audubon in observing and identifying local birds. Binoculars are useful. Kids can join with adult supervision. (15 participants) |
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SATURDAY MORNING SESSION 2
| TIME | EVENT NAME | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION & MORE INFO |
| 9AM-12PM | NATIVE PLANT GIVEAWAY | Learn about local plants from plant restoration specialist Emily Willard and adopt one of your own to take home with you, while supplies last. |
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| 9:30AM-12PM | REPTILE VISUAL ENCOUNTERS | Join naturalists on foot to observe and survey lizards and other reptiles active during daylight hours at locations throughout the monument. Kids can join with adult supervision. Binoculars are useful. (10 participants per location) |
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| 9:30AM-12PM | BIOBLITZ OBSERVATIONS MEET UP | Join naturalists and other participants to caravan to monument locations and help record bioblitz observations of plants and animals. Kids can join with adult supervision. Binoculars are useful. (12 participants per location) |
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| 10AM-12PM | KIDS ACTIVITIES | Join naturalist Paula Jacoby-Garrett for fun and games with science, nature and creativity. (Participants can drop in anytime.) |
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| 10AM-12PM | JOSHUA TREE SEED CLEANING | Learn about the fascinating biology of the Joshua tree and its relationship to the Yucca moth while helping to extract seeds from their pods and prepare them for use in studies and reforesting efforts. Kids can join. (Participants can drop in anytime.) |
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| 10AM-10:30AM | TOUR OF WALKING BOX RANCH HOUSE | Join our board president Ron Safran for a tour of this historic house, with some new surprises! Kids can join with adult supervision. (15 participants) |
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| 11AM-11:45AM | STEWARDSHIP 101 PRESENTATION | Learn how you can help preserve Nevada’s heritage through the Nevada Site Stewardship Program. (30 participants |
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION
| TIME | EVENT NAME | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION & OTHER INFO |
| 12PM-1:45PM | SATURDAY LUNCH & GROUP TALK | Bring your own picnic lunch. Drinks and snacks are also available by donation through Friends of Avi Kwa Ame. |
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| 2PM-5PM | SPECIAL STATUS PLANT SURVEY | Join BLM Botanists in conducting botanical surveys via transects for Rosy and Yellow Two-Toned Beardtongues (Penstemon bicolor ssp. roseus & Penstemon bicolor ssp. bicolor). Plant paramours will be visiting historically documented populations found within the Monument to collect updated population and occurrence data then perform surveys in suitable habitat to identify additional occurrences of these species. Flora fans will be walking back and forth in nature, but make no mistake, this is no walk in the park, no nature walk. It’s for science. (5 participants) |
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| 2PM-5PM | BIOBLITZ OBSERVATIONS MEET UP | Join naturalists and other participants to caravan to monument locations and help record bioblitz observations of plants and animals. Kids can join with adult supervision. Binoculars are useful. (12 participants per location) |
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| 2PM-3PM | DESERT THRASHERS PRESENTATION | Learn about these shy and interesting birds, and how you can help Great Basin Bird Observatory study them in Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Kids can join with adult supervision. (30 participants) |
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| 2PM-5PM | JOSHUA TREE SEED CLEANING | Learn about the fascinating biology of the Joshua tree and its relationship to the Yucca moth while helping to extract seeds from their pods and prepare them for use in studies and reforesting efforts. Wheelchair accessible. Kids can join. (Participants can drop in anytime.) |
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| 2PM-4PM | KIDS ACTIVITIES | Join naturalist Paula Jacoby-Garrett for fun and games with science, nature and creativity. (Participants can drop in anytime.) |
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| 4:15PM-4:45PM | TOUR OF WALKING BOX RANCH HOUSE | Join our board president Ron Safran for a tour of this historic house, with some new surprises! Kids can join with adult supervision. (20 participants) |
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| 5PM-6:15PM | SATURDAY DINNER & GROUP TALK | Bring your own meal. Drinks and snacks are also available by donation through Friends of Avi Kwa Ame. |
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SATURDAY EVENING SESSION
| TIME | EVENT NAME | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION & MORE INFO |
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| 6:30PM-11PM | REPTILE ROAD CRUISING | Caravan in cars along designated routes for evening time surveys that focus on encountering nocturnal snakes and other animals while driving slowly, using vehicle headlights and flashlights. Kids can join with adult supervision. (10 participants/route) |
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| 6:30PM-10PM | BAT SURVEY AT PINE SPRINGS | Observe and assist biologists as they record bat species through acoustic monitoring and careful netting at a local water source. (12 participants) |
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| 6:30PM-7PM | WHY PLANTS AND ANIMALS NEED DARK NIGHT SKIES | Presentation on how biology and astronomy are connected, with an introduction to Avi Kwa Ame’s Dark Sky Park designation process. (30 participants) |
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| 7PM-9PM | TELESCOPE VIEWING WITH THE LAS VEGAS ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Celebrate International Dark Skies Week with a peek up at the heavens on a moonless night. Kids can join with adult supervision. |
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| 7PM-9PM | DARK SKY LIGHT MEASURING | Join in on the monitoring of dark sky places within the monument to help make observations towards our Dark Sky Park application. Kids can join with adult supervision. (10 participants per team). |
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| 7:30PM-12AM | BLACKLIGHT SCORPION SURVEY | Join in on the hunt for glow in the dark scorpions around Christmas Tree Pass. (6 participants). |
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Click below to go to the event pages for each day:
You can also support the Spring Bioblitz by making a donation during checkout.
THE 2025 AVI KWA AME NATIONAL MONUMENT SPRING BIOBLITZ is hosted and supported by the following organizations:
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