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  • Home
  • About Us
    • History
    • Advisory Council
    • Tribal Resilience Liaisons
    • Organizations & Networks
    • Northeast Region
    • Tribes in the Northeast
  • Climate Change in the Northeast
    • Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes
    • How Tribes are Planning for Climate Change
    • Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu >
      • TAM Workshops
      • TAM Projects
    • Manoomin: Climate Change Impacts & Conservation >
      • Events
      • Manoomin Literature
  • Network Meetings
  • Projects & Events
    • Indigenous Planning Summer Institute
    • Shifting Seasons Summits >
      • 2021 Shifting Seasons Summit
    • Phenology Trail >
      • Phenology definition
      • why is phenology important?
  • Resources
    • Websites & Tools
    • Climate Change Literature
    • Funding Opportunities
  • Contact

Why is phenology important?

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Pink Lady Slipper aka Moccasin Flower aka Cypripedium acaule in full beautiful bloom located in the Wood Henge plant community also with ground cedar and blooming Canada Mayflower (small white flowers) aka Wild Lily-of-the-Valley aka Maianthemum canadense.
Humans, plants and animals have been guided by phenological events for centuries.  Farmers and gardeners use it for planting crops (especially in our area due to frost), planning crop rotations, spraying insecticides, and for harvesting.  Health professionals use it for predicting how many people are affected by plant allergens.  Hunters and wild plant harvesters use it while they are in the woods. Fisherman use the phenological migration data to find desired fish.  Also, with sea levels rising along the coasts due to global warming, land managers use if for planning and relocating entire communities.

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​full leaf out phenophase of hepatica nobilis

This picture of Hepatica had been taken on April 1, 2016.
Learn more about Hepatica
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Fresh and fuzzy hepatica flower!

fresh and fuzzy flowering phenophase

Round lobed Hepatica was one of the first to flower on the future Phenology Learning Path on April 19, 2016.  It had flowered just in time for the campus Earth Day Mini-Bioblitz!
Hepatica flower power
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Knodding and fruitless Monotropa uniflora cluster will stand upright and erect once it starts to develop fruit!


no chlorophyll for photosynthesis?

How does the Indian Pipe cluster above receive nutrients since it has no chlorophyll?  The Indian Pipe or Corpse Plant gets nutrients from tree roots via a mychorrizal relationship. Click on the link below to learn more!
Learn about Indian Pipe!

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College of Menominee Nation - Sustainable Development Institute
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N172 Hwy 47/55
 PO Box 1179
Keshena, WI 54135
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