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Candlelight Ski / Owl Prowl at Rydell National Wildlife Refuge
The evening of Saturday, February 27th the Friends of Rydell and Glacial Ridge Refuges Association will be hosting a Candlelight Ski and Owl Prowl event at Rydell National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) near Erskine, MN. The timing of this event coincides with a nearly full moon, and hopefully good snow conditions, clear skies, and moderate temperatures. The event will run from 6:00pm to 9:30pm. Although all five of Rydell NWR’s trails will be open for cross country skiing or snowshoeing, Church Lake, Rice Lake, and Round Lake trails will be groomed and lighted for this event. Even though luminaries will be distributed along these three trails, we recommend that visitors bring along a headlamp, if they have one, just in case it’s cloudy and there is minimal moonlight. As visitors traverse the trails, two owl calling stations will be set up where the calls of several owl species (e.g., saw whet, barred, great horned