The second most common species in Iowa, the American toad makes a "long, musical trill" when advertising to potential mates. 

Courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. 

The second most common species in Iowa, the American toad makes a "long, musical trill" when advertising to potential mates.&nbsp;
Courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.&nbsp;

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Call of the American Toad

Volunteers listen for chorus frogs, spring peepers, northern leopard frogs, American Toads and Eastern gray treefrogs. 

To identify them, listen for these sounds: The chorus frog sounds like running your finger over a fine-tooth comb; the spring peeper sounds like the "peep" of a baby bird; the northern leopard frog, like a rubbery, creaky door on a haunted house or a "long, rubbery snore with occasional chuckles"; the American toad, like a "long, musical trill," the gray treefrog a more "relaxed, laidback, musical, short trill." These frogs all call in the early spring, in April. 

Courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. 

Volunteers listen for chorus frogs, spring peepers, northern leopard frogs, American Toads and Eastern gray treefrogs.&nbsp;
To identify them, listen for these sounds: The chorus frog sounds like&nbsp;running your finger over a fine-tooth comb; the spring peeper sounds like the "peep" of a baby bird; the northern leopard frog, like a rubbery,&nbsp;creaky door on a haunted house or a "long, rubbery snore with occasional chuckles"; the American toad, like a "long, musical trill," the gray treefrog a more "relaxed, laidback, musical, short trill." These frogs all call in the early spring, in April.&nbsp;
Courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.&nbsp;

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Cousins Daniel and Tyler Janski have been experimenting with cover crops and no-till farming practices for the last four years on their family's St. Augusta, Minn., farm. 

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Episode 5 - Chelsea Morning Farm with Nora Hertel and Erik Newland

Cree and Jason Bradley produce maple syrup, raise vegetables, sell spring plants and now raise tree seedlings to help northern Minnesota forests adapt to climate change.

Episode 5 -&nbsp;Chelsea Morning Farm with Nora Hertel and Erik Newland
Cree and Jason Bradley produce maple syrup, raise vegetables, sell spring plants and now raise tree seedlings to help northern Minnesota forests adapt to climate change.

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Call of the American Toad

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