The Denver Zoo and the Rocky Mountain Wild are asking for your help to identify wild animals in 40,000 photos taken on the Vail Pass Wildlife Byway.
The initiative, called the Colorado Corridors Project, is a joint effort between the organizations to photograph animals via remote-triggered cameras on Interstate 70 between Copper Mountain Resort and the top of Vail Pass.
"Wildlife monitoring is an essential step in assessing whether wildlife crossing structures are effective in restoring connectivity for wildlife moving across the landscape," the website says.
Now, the Colorado Corridors Project is urging volunteers to comb through 40,000 photos of animals taken at this site and to identify them. It's with this information that the group can "support of the construction of a wildlife overpass on Vail Pass."
"Our remote-triggered cameras collect tens of thousands of photos each year," the Colorado Corridors Project website says. "Because of this overwhelming amount of data, we need your help identifying the wildlife you see in these photos."
Interested? The process is easy! The website will show you a photo and several options of animal to choose from. After you've picked the one you think you see, move on to the other 39,999 images and repeat!
It's a great time waster and it helps the overall good of Colorado wildlife. Currently there are more than 2,000 volunteers.
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