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North Woods Naturalist

Sunrise west harbor  from the Sunrise Series by Stephan Hoglund

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Chel Anderson
Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. She lives in the Hovland area and keeps close tabs on daily changes happening in the great outdoors. She shares her insights with WTIP listeners every Tuesday during North Shore Morning.

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Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

North Woods Naturalist - May 19

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Chel talks about the spring activities she's been seeing in our woods and waters.

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Photo by Gary Siesennop

North Woods Naturalist: Spring so far

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Chel talks about all the spring activities she's seen so far in our woods and waters.

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Photo by Dennis Chick.

North Woods Naturalist: Signs of spring

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist.  Chel talks about the signs of spring in this edition of North Woods Naturalist.

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North Brule River at Greenwood Road. Photo by Gary Siesennop

North Woods Naturalist: Spring Changes

In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Chel Anderson talks about the on and off again spring we've been experiencing over the past few weeks.

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North Woods Naturalist - April 14

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

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North Woods Naturalist - April 7

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

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Northern Saw-whet Owl.  Photo by David A Mitchell via Flickr and Creative Commons (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

North Woods Naturalist: Saw-whet Owls

WTIP's CJ Heithoff talks with naturalist Chel Anderson about Saw-whet Owls in this edition of North Woods Naturalist.

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North Woods Naturalist -March 31

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

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Spring sunrise over Lake Superior by Travis Novitsky

North Woods Naturalist: Early March observations

This time of the year is the beginning of the transition from winter to spring.  There's lots of activity starting up in the woods, but there's still cold weather and snow.  Naturalist Chel Anderson shares some of her recent observations in this edition of North Woods Naturalist.  

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Purple Finch.  Photo by Dennis Chick.

North Woods Naturalist: Bird survival skills

How do birds survive the northern winters?

WTIP's CJ Heithoff learns about the survival skills of birds from naturalist Chel Anderson in this edition of North Woods Naturalist.

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