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The May edition of the Season Watch Podcast is here! Much like the Season Watch Newsletter, it features plants, animals, and phenomena to look for in six categories: while commuting, while walking, in watery habitats, in open areas, in the forest, and in town. New this month is a listener Q&A section!

The IRRR will use the funding to expand the current MARTI pilot — a free on-demand automated micro-transit service in Grand Rapids — to make transit services more reliant, convenient and accessible in rural communities, including for wheelchair users.

The Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation is a state agency located in Eveleth. The economic development agency reinvests local taconite production taxes into northeastern Minnesota businesses and communities.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their nature reports. Depending on the season, reports may cover wildflowers, wildlife, weather and other wonders.

Veterans and community members gather at Itasca Calvary Cemetery in Grand Rapids to honor Memorial Day.

In this month’s edition of KAXE’s series on the decline of native pollinators, Elaine Evans from the Minnesota Bee Atlas discusses abstract art, beneficial plant species and the seasonal cycle of bumblebees.

David Mura’s new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives," urges us to change our racial narratives.

Independent audio producer Leah Lemm featured Shirley Nordrum on KAXE’s "Northern Voices" – celebrating ties to Minnesota’s northland, a series on KAXE.

"My Soft Machine" by Arlo Parks is KAXE's Album of the Week for May 26-June 1, 2023.

John Latimer's weekly assessment of nature.