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Phenology Student Reports: 12/1/20

Kellie Lindquist via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Facebook Page
Sunset 11/29, Kitchi Lake, Chippewa Nat'l Forest

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate.  Phenology Talkbacks are an opportunity for listeners to connect with the station about nature.  Each week, resident phenologist John Latimer gathers the phenological correspondence and classroom observations sent his way.  He shares and discusses them every Tuesday morning during the Phenology Show.  

Student Reports for this week are below! 

Kelliher kids report a moose, a white weasel, and flying squirrels! 

Students at Pike Lake Elementary saw squirrels at their birdfeeders and discuss the differences between the gray fox and red fox. 

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Pike Lake Elementary School Report

Barnum students submitted this collaborative report with some stellar on-the-scene phenological reporting! 

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Barnum School Report

If you have a question or observation you'd like to share, send an email comments@kaxe.org or leave a voice message at 218-999-9876!   If you are a teacher interested in getting the phenology program going in your classroom, send John an email!  He's got a whole curriculum he can send your way.

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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.