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NEW: Secrets of the Old-growth Forest Poster

July 8, 2013 Wilderness Walker

A new Larry Eifert poster is now available, an 18″ x 24″ companion piece to the Old-growth Forests poster I recently blogged about. While we’ve printed a jigsaw puzzle of this image before, there was never a poster. The best part of this is that we had the printer roll them – yes, ROLL THEM (how modern can we get) so we didn’t have to do that. Yes, the warehouse is somewhat stuffed at the moment, so help us out.

The poster back is sectioned off into four areas that can easily be photocopied by teachers to develop a lesson plan. We encourage this as it makes for a really good teaching tool. So, help us pay this stupid printing bill: You can buy this poster here.

The original painting is installed in the Prairie Creek museum in Redwood National Park near Orick, California. Next time you’re there to see one of the truly great forests on the planet, stop by and see the painting. Redwood NP has many Eiferts, including three murals and something like forty other paintings scattered around on exhibit panels and waysides. It’s like a big art gallery in the forest.

The forest at Prairie Creek: it has 10 times the biomass of a typical tropical rain forest, and holds the most living or once-living organic matter of any forest on Earth. No wonder I like it, no wonder it’s a park.

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert

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New Painting Post

National Wildlife Refuge Week poster

October 14, 2011 Wilderness Walker

(These photos should both enlarge with a click)

The same folks at US Fish and Wildlife Service who commissioned me for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge murals earlier this year have now used a small piece of them on the poster for National Wildlife Refuge Week. That’s a thrill for me on several levels, not the least of which is that this goes all around the country – and I’m already getting some fun fan mail about it.

For me, wildlife refuges are iconic places. I’ve had a very long history with these soggy mudholes, with proof shown in the photo below. It was taken just a few miles north of the same Necedah Refuge in Wisconsin, August 1956, and I was 10. The boat’s name is Redskin and it was just that, a red carvel-planked wooden boat I was turned loose with for weeks to explore the local back marshes and lakes. There was never a life jacket in sight! I used to row out to a lily-pad backwater and just hang my head over the stern watching the fresh water sponges inhale, exhale. Watch the fish make lazy circles under the snags and floating logs, watch the turtles make plopping sounds as they tried to get away from my not-so-quick little hands. These places had a powerful effect on me, a hold that remains firmly in control as I continue to paint them today, over a half-century later.

My dad was never one to shirk from duty, and if I (in the bow) and Virginia (in the stern) wanted to go out and find wildlife, he’d do it – no matter if it was hours and hours of rowing uphill. He once bragged that he planned to carry me up 12,183′ hiker’s only Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park each time we’d go there (which was often), so that by the time I reached high school he’d be stronger than Jack Lalanne. I think the idea lasted two years.

Thanks for reading this week. And thanks for the kind words about the poster.
Larry Eifert