Botanical Skills NI: NPMS Refresher training and recording

Join the Botanical Skills Northern Ireland Project for a training event for the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) volunteers. It’s not too late to carry out your second NPMS survey! This event will provide NPMS training and an opportunity to ask questions about monitoring your own square.

The morning training session will be spent indoors at Houston’s Mill, Broughshane in Co. Antrim. In the afternoon we will record plants on an NPMS square just outside Broughshane, recently taken on by the Friends of Ecos Volunteer Group.

This training session will provide attendees with training on using the NPMS app, recording plants at the NPMS wildflower level in different habitats, help recognising NPMS habitats using indicator plants, advice on relocating existing NPMS plots using coordinates, notes, photographs and maps. We will also learn how to set up a new linear plot and input data from surveys.

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