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Following Iowa Wildlife's Natural Calendar

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An environmental communications specialist looks for warblers at a phenology workshop in Illinois

We all know that Spring follows winter and summer follows spring, but when the snow melts, when the flowers bloom, and when the frogs sing from year to year can tell us a lot.

Today on Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe talks with wildlife biologist Jim Pease about phenology, the study of periodic plant and animal lifecycle events.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa