I’m new to iNaturalist so please excuse me if I’ve overlooked the answer to this question, though I’ve searched. I would like to follow people in my geographical region. This would help me immensely, affording me a practical way of seeing who and what is going on around me. Is there a way to find ot…

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Welcome to iNat! I think the easiest way to approach this is to use the Explore function on the website, enter your area of choice under location (e.g. county, state), and check out the “observers” and “identifiers” tabs for those who are most active in those areas. You can click on their names to g…

Hi Doug! Welcome to the iNaturalist community! @billhubick has put together a really good page on Maryland Biodiversity that includes field trips: https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/ Lots of those folks utilize iNaturalist in the field trips too, it seems.

The basic approach is to use the “Explore” tab on iNaturalist.org . Click on “explore,” and then in the “location” box put the name of the country, state, province, county, etc and hit return. (If you are interested in a taxon, such as mollusks, plants, amphibians, etc, put that in the “species” bo…

You can also follow a place. I think it’s only available on the website though. On your dashboard page, right side below “Forums”, there’s a section for “Subscriptions.” You can subscribe to a place, which lets you search for place names. You can also filter by taxon if you only want to see plants o…

Thank you Janet. Much appreciated!

I would just like to add that there often projects that involve a specific place. Apart from the best suggestions above, that may be another option.

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