Track climate change clues in your backyard

You can help track climate change by observing and recording the timing of flowers and foliage in your backyard as part of Project Budburst.

You select one or more plants to watch and take notes on buds opening, the first leaves and flowers emerging and when seed dispersal happens. Then you record the data online at www.budburst.org.

The project is collaboration between academic and scientific institutions and is paid for by a grant from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Foundation.