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Phenology
They rhythmic biological events as they relate to climate.

Phenology Report: June 27, 2017

Two loon parents swim with their chicks on calm water. One loon baby is riding on its parent's back.
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Dallas Clell Hudson via KAXE/KBXE Season Watch FB Page
Loon Family at Shingobee Lake

Tuesdays are special on Northern Community Radio.  It's the day we look closely at Phenology.  John Latimer has been keeping phenological notes for more than 30 years.   Comparing nature notes of years past with current happenings creates the weekly Phenology Report.  

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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.