‘May the Forest Be With You’ in May

For the Metro Wire

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Schmeeckle Reserve will host two events in May.

The 2018 Spring Candlelight Hike Festival will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the reserve’s Visitor Center, 2419 North Point Dr., Stevens Point. Open to the public, the event has a suggested donation of $2 per person or $5 per family.

This year’s hike, themed “May The Forest Be With You,” includes campfire presentations at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Follow a torch-lit path around the reserve and Lake Joanis, and enjoy snacks, crafts, discovery stations and a scavenger hunt. The Browse Shop will be open as well.

The reserve will host its last public program of the semester, “The Wetland’s Air Force,” from 6-7 p.m. Monday, May 7. Led by a UW-Stevens Point student at the Visitors Center, the program explores the lives of dragonflies and damselflies as they protect the skies of the reserve’s wetlands. Dress for the weather.

For more information, call 715-346-4992 or go to www.uwsp.edu/cnr/schmeeckle.