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Phenology Report: April 17, 2018

Marilyn Lee via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch FB Page
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We care deeply about the natural world around us here at KAXE-KBXE.  Each week our resident phenologist John Latimer's Phenology Report provides a comprehensive look at what's  happening in nature here in northern Minnesota.  This week's report is a little different than most because John Latimer is leading a phenology tour group through the Smoky Mountains.  In this segment you'll hear a phone call from that tour group and you'll also hear the voice of a new phenologist.  Dallas Hudson has been keeping phenology notes for several years.  In today's segment, Dallas compares this week's temperatures and animal patterns to the averages in our recent history and specifically last year. If you feel like spring is slow to come this year, you are right.  The data proves it!  Take a listen and learn all about it! 

Big thanks to Dallas for pinch hitting for us this week!  Nice work!

What are you noticing?  Send us a note via email or leave a voicemail at 218.999.9876.  We'd love to hear about it.   

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Listen to our morning show every Tuesday morning for the full phenology

As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.
Heidi Holtan is KAXE's Director of Content and Public Affairs where she manages producers and is the local host of Morning Edition from NPR. Heidi is a regional correspondent for WDSE/WRPT's Duluth Public Television’s Almanac North.