[PCA] NEWS: Local gardeners do their part to record possible 'global weirding'

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-budburst_05aug05,0,3640493.story

Local gardeners do their part to record possible 'global weirding'
An army of local gardeners is tracking the impact of climate change on 
backyard flora

By Tim De Chant | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:48 AM CDT, August 5, 2008

When Tom Koulentes is not advising students at Highland Park High School 
or chasing after his own kids, he spends time behind his small Des Plaines 
home researching climate change.

Koulentes is recording his garden's natural history, from the weigela's 
first leaf to the butterfly bush's last bloom, for Project BudBurst, a new 
nationwide research program based on the observations of ordinary people. 
He is looking for local signs like an early bloom or a late-falling leaf 
that stem from planetwide changes.

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