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Phenology Report: November ends with icy lakes and ponds

By Charlie Mitchell
Published December 3, 2024 at 12:28 PM CST
A wild turkey forages for food through a dusting of snow in St. Louis County on Dec. 1, 2024.
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A wild turkey forages for food through a dusting of snow in St. Louis County on Dec. 1, 2024.

KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer provides his weekly assessment of nature in Northern Minnesota. This is the week of Nov. 26, 2024.

This Thanksgiving, lakes and ponds in Grand Rapids have frozen over and staff phenologist John Latimer is eager to get out on the ice. Be safe out there - check out the DNR's page on ice safety before venturing out!

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What have you seen out there? Let us know: email us at comments@kaxe.org or text us at 218-326-1234.

That does it for this week! For more phenology, <b>subscribe</b> to our Season Watch Newsletter or visit the Season Watch Facebook page.

Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

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Charlie Mitchell (she/they) joined KAXE in February of 2022. Charlie creates the Season Watch Newsletter, produces the Phenology Talkbacks show, coordinates the Phenology in the Classroom program, and writes nature-related stories for KAXE's website. Essentailly, Charlie is John Latimer's faithful sidekick and makes sure all of KAXE's nature/phenology programs find a second life online and in podcast form.<br/><br/><br/>With a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, Charlie enjoys learning a little bit about everything, whether it's plants, mushrooms, or the star-nosed mole. (Fun fact: Moles store fat in their tails, so they don't outgrow their tunnels every time conditions are good.)
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