Winter Film Festival

Do you have cabin fever? Join us at Seney National Wildlife Refuge for a showing of "Nature's Misfits" and "Cold Warrior: Wolves and Buffalo," Thursday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. The films will be shown in the visitor center auditorium. The show is open to the public and is free. Hot chocolate, coffee, tea, popcorn and cookies will be provided by the Seney Natural History Association. Please bring a mug. "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo": For thousands of years, wolves hunted buffalo across the vast North American plains until the westward settlement of the continent saw the virtual extinction of these vast herds and their eternal predators, the wolves. However, this ancient relationship was not lost altogether, and continues uninterrupted in just one location - on the northern edge of the continent's central plains in a place called Wood Buffalo National Park. "Animal Misfits": Alongside the fastest, strongest, smartest animals are nature's misfits, odd, bizarre and unlikely creatures that seem ill-equipped for survival. Somehow they manage to cling to life and in some cases even thrive. Nature's Misfits reveals some surprising details about how evolution really works, demonstrating that all animals are remarkably well-adapted to their chosen way of life. (Descriptions of these films are borrowed from the producers' websites.) If evening activities are cancelled due to weather at the Tahquamenon or Manistique Area Schools, the films will be shown Tuesday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m.