I was hoping to find a region that ties into the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. All the regions on iNat related to the NE portion of North America are either too small or too large.
If there’s a region that covers Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota to the west with a line from the north edge of Minnesota to New Brunswick down the coast to the south edge which includes Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri this would be great.
If not is there a way to request this? I tried creating it but I found out there are restrictions creating larger regions.
The one you pointed out covers too much of Canada and doesn’t include all the states in the Northeasten United States. If it’s possible to create this would be great. If creating new regions is out of the question this would be good to know.
This seems like a very useful natural boundary for the Northeastern U.S. Not sure what went into the decision for the current Northeastern United States which seems like an overly narrow definition: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/northeastern-united-states
@nycbirder can you describe what you want to do with the place? If you want to make a collection project to aggregate observations of interest, can you combine multiple existing places to acheive the same outcome?
@carrieseltzer Thanks for the reply. I’m looking to have access to a region that is useful to people interested in the NE United States flora and fauna. Being able to choose one place that is consistent for all would be ideal.
The current place called ‘Northeastern United States’ covers an area that matches the U.S. Census Bureau definition. The needs for people interested in the wildlife of the NE U.S. may differ from the USCB definition.
I’ve created an URL with the 22 states in the U.S. plus New Brunswick. This excludes the southern portions of Ontario & Quebec. Here are all the moths reported for the Northeastern U.S. in iNat. The # of species is currently at 3,189:
When you’re viewing an observation, such as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10605800, just under the map, on the right, there’s a button labelled “Details” which opens a list of all the “Community Curated” places which contain the observation, sorted from smallest to largest.