Gunflint Green Up Schedule
Watch this page for more information.Friday 5/7
- 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Walks and Talks - TBA -
5:50 - 7:30 PM
Welcome Picnic
Location: Big Top at Gunflint Lodge
Music by Pincushion Warblers! - After dinner
Owl in a Night's Work - Bill Lane, Boreal Owl Researcher
- 9:30 AM
Gunflint Green Up Tree Release
Registrants will receive an email with their assigned staging area after April 25. Box lunch provided
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5:30 - 7:30 PM
Thank You Dinner
Location: Big Top at Gunflint Lodge
Music by Gerald Thilmany - 8:00 PM
Dance to "Trail's End Band"
Location: Big Top at Gunflint Lodge
Friday Night Presenter: Bill Lane
Despite 24 years of not-so-subtle hints from daylight, Bill Lane unflinchingly continues to conduct nocturnal owl surveys in northeast Minnesota each spring. Since he started in 1987, he has experienced the night, its landscapes, and its denizens through a wondrous mix of awe, glee, disbelief, and (sometimes) disdain; but always with a passion that remains as powerful in 2010, as it was in 1987. His passion, however, has been tempered by the fact that the owl he first sought in 1987 has virtually disappeared from Minnesota's boreal forest. Bill perseveres, however, because he isn't quite ready to surrender to daylight and, like any good biologist, he wants to see what happens next.