 The Crane Meadows Wildlife Refuge spent the weekend reaching out to the community of one of its biggest annual events for this week's Northwoods adventure. Clayton Castle takes us to Habitat Day. Children and adults made their way to the Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Little Falls on Saturday morning for the 18th Annual Habitat Day, learning more about wildlife and the environment. 18 years ago we decided to have an event for the public and we built a few boxes in a shop here, dirt floor and it was sportsmen's clubs and the Fish and Wildlife Service and the DNR came together and we pooled some funds and bought some lumber and that's how it originally started and now the event is an over $20,000 event at this point and we've had over 700 people here today. Kids took part in a number of activities including shooting practice at the education range. I hit one right here and then I hit one like in the mouth kind of. And of course there was the building of the bird houses. It's an event that we hold for families to come out and build bluebird houses and wood duck boxes and they build them here, there's kits, there's 400 available and they get to take them home and put them up on their own property. While the activities were geared towards kids, the adults also were able to take part in the fun. I made a bluebird house and also we made a wood duck house. It's got a lake lot last year so we're putting the wood duck houses out there and the bluebird houses that go across the road from our house and the woods or near the woods. Habitat Day has had an impact on the people who stopped by, people young and old who love nature and love the environment. This is our third time and we really enjoy it, I really love my birds, the birds and the wood ducks and the ducks and I just feel like I like to do my part for the environment. We've had wood duck houses out for five or six years now and we've had several wood ducks in them coming and going every year. The weather's nice, you can look for eggs and stuff like that and get a little money. Reporting in Little Falls for this week's Northwoods Adventure Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.