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Phenology
They rhythmic biological events as they relate to climate.

Phenology Report: March 13, 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.  

In addition to the Phenology Report, this week John pays his respects to longtime listener and lover of the outdoors Ken Perry of Brainerd.  Ken was a phenologist at heart and contributed regularly to our show.  Our thoughts are with Ken's family.  

Spring is just around the corner in northern Minnesota and in this Phenology Report, John tells us why he thinks it might be some time until we are in a full spring explosion.  But, fear not, consistently warmer weather is on its way!   Click the link for the full report.  

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.   

If you love this stuff, you'll dig our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Page on Facebook.  Check it out!

Listen to our morning show every Tuesday morning for the full phenology experience that is the Tuesday Morning Show on KAXE-KBXE Northern Community Radio. 

Phenology is made possible by the members of Northern Community Radio and a grant from the U of MN NE Regional Sustainable Development Partnership.  

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.