Warmer temperatures during this fall/winter seem to be changing there life cycle.
Weather watchers are focused on the world's most northerly community, which is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave.
Squirrel parka tail plants early
Spruce trees growing fast.
1/27/15 Early plants - Klawock, Alaska, USA
Pussy willows (Salix scouleriana) - a sign of spring in Interior Alaska.
During the 2012 wind storm, many of the poplars lost branches or their tops. Now leave the leaves are growing back as big as pie plates.