Wild Spotter - Mapping Invasives in America's Wild Places

Wild Spotter^TM - Engaging and empowering the public to help find, map, and prevent invasive species in America's wilderness areas, wild rivers, and other natural areas. Become a Wild Spotter citizen scientist volunteer, download the Mobile App, and help protect America's Wild Places!

Wild Spotter and Wilderness

Celebrating the 1964 Signing of the Wilderness Act

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You can help fight back against invasive species in America's wild places by downloading the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone or other mobile device. You'll learn how to identify, map, and prevent the spread of these invaders in order to protect our rivers, mountains, forests, and all wild places for future generations.

Become a Wild Spotter

Volunteers are a vital part of the Wild Spotter campaign! To become a volunteer, register either online or download the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone or other mobile device. Once registered, reach out to your nearest National Forest or Grassland to discover how you can volunteer to help support and protect these beautiful places from invasive species. Then, just get outside and enjoy America's wild places while keeping an eye out for those harmful invaders!

Become a Partner

Wild Spotter networks people and organizations to help manage invasive species through on-the-ground, community-based projects, partnerships, and volunteer citizen science support that increases capacity for conserving our nation's natural resources. Wild Spotter creates partnerships with public and private organizations at all levels and across all landownerships. Complete the FREE Registration form to become a Wild Spotter Partner now!

Wild Spotter Partners

The Wild Spotter Mobile App Works on iPhone, iPad and Android devices

Download and install the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App to map invasive species in your favorite wild places with or without cell reception.

Wild Spotter Mission

Wild Spotter aims to build citizen science volunteer capacity to protect America's wild places from harmful invasive plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, algae, and fungi that outcompete our nation's native species and threaten the biodiversity and health of every aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem.

Promote Awareness

America's wild places are home to beauty, diversity, and reflection, yet they are under attack from aquatic and terrestrial invasive species. One of the goals of Wild Spotter is to help raise public awareness about the threat of these non-native invaders, and provide fast and simple steps the public can take to prevent them from spreading into new areas.

Engage the Public

Wild Spotter helps you identify, map, and report invasive species found in your favorite wild places. The data you collect will help create the first-ever nationwide inventory of invasive species in America's natural areas. You can help us fight back against harmful invaders by becoming a Wild Spotter volunteer or partner. By downloading the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App on your smartphone, you can quickly and easily collect vital data on these invasions: location, extent, and impact - all while you are enjoying the great outdoors.

Defeat Invasives

The data you collect while you are visiting America's wild places will help management teams create more effective strategies to prevent and control invasive species and restore the areas they impact. By reporting data through the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App, you will be helping to protect recreational activities, such as hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, climbing as well as clean water, abundant wildlife, and all the other benefits of these wonderful wild places.

Help Protect America's Wild Places

Become a Wild Spotter Partner

To accomplish our mission to protect America's wild places from harmful non-native plants, pathogens, and animals, Wild Spotter collaborates with public and private partners at all levels. The diversity of our partnerships helps accelerate work against the invasive species threat across all landownerships. Promoting the work of our partner organizations and volunteers who help battle invasive species is at the heart of the Wild Spotter mission. Partner efforts are promoted through the Wild Spotter website, including FREE logo placement and social media connections, as well as in print advertisements and other media. Wild Spotter promotional items such as decals, pins, clothing, posters, and other products are available to all volunteer and partner participants.

Wild Places

Virginia

Heritage Trail

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New Mexico

Rìo San Antonio Wilderness

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Colorado

Pawnee National Grassland

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West Virginia

Kanawha Falls

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Virginia

Charlotte State Forest

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Texas

Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland

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Colorado

Gunnison Gorge

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North Carolina

Uwharrie National Forest

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Virginia

First Mountain State Forest

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California

Otay Mountain Wilderness

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Join Wild Spotter

To defeat these exotic invaders, we need to know where they are. When you spot them, use the app to make sure we get the information we need: what, where and how extensive is the impact? It's easy to do while enjoying the great outdoors. By uploading this information, you'll be helping to assemble the first-ever nationwide inventory of invasive species in America's Wilderness Areas, Wild Rivers, and other natural areas. You'll also learn how to reduce and stop the spread of these insidious invaders - and protect America's rivers, mountains, forests, and all wild places for future generations. So make a difference! Volunteer to join the Wild Spotter campaign today.

Wild Spotter volunteers

Volunteers are what power Wild Spotter. These are an example of volunteers who go out and map invasives in America's wild places!

Rachel C.

Hunter

Dave M.

Angler

Karan R.

Kayaker

Brian L.

Elk Hunter

Powered By EDDMapS

EDDMapS is a web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species distribution and there are immense numbers of invasive species observations reported each year. In turn, EDDMapS shares this data and makes it freely available to everyone. Wild Spotter is built upon the existing EDDMapS infrastructure and all data contributed becomes part of the overall database.

Wild Spotter Citizen Science Volunteers Needed

Help map invasive species threatening Wilderness Areas and Wild & Scenic Rivers.

Become a Wild Spotter

Wild SpotterTM - Engaging and empowering the public to help find, map, and prevent invasive species in America's wilderness areas, wild rivers, and other natural areas. Become a Wild Spotter citizen scientist volunteer, download the Mobile App, and help protect America's Wild Places!

Wild Spotter and Wilderness

Celebrating the 1964 Signing of the Wilderness Act

Wild Spotter Partners

The Wild Spotter Mobile App Works on iPhone, iPad and Android devices

Download and install the FREE Wild Spotter Mobile App to map invasive species in your favorite wild places with or without cell reception.

Wild Spotter Mission

Promote Awareness

Engage the Public

Defeat Invasives

Help Protect America's Wild Places

Wild Places

Virginia

New Mexico

Colorado

West Virginia

Virginia

Texas

Colorado

North Carolina

Virginia

California

Join Wild Spotter

Wild Spotter volunteers

Rachel C.

Dave M.

Karan R.

Brian L.

Powered By EDDMapS

Wild Spotter Citizen Science Volunteers Needed

Wild Spotter^TM - Engaging and empowering the public to help find, map, and prevent invasive species in America's wilderness areas, wild rivers, and other natural areas. Become a Wild Spotter citizen scientist volunteer, download the Mobile App, and help protect America's Wild Places!