{"id":1465,"date":"2011-10-14T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:39:07","slug":"national-wildlife-refuge-week-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/national-wildlife-refuge-week-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wildlife Refuge Week poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The same folks at US Fish and Wildlife Service\u00a0who commissioned me for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge murals earlier this year have\u00a0now used a small piece of them on the\u00a0poster 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\u00a0fan mail about it.<\/p>\n

For me, wildlife refuges are iconic places.\u00a0I’ve had a very long history with these soggy mudholes, with proof\u00a0shown\u00a0in the photo below. It was taken just a few miles north of the same Necedah Refuge\u00a0in Wisconsin, August 1956, and I was 10. The boat’s name is Redskin and it was just that, a red\u00a0carvel-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\u00a0turtles\u00a0make plopping sounds\u00a0as 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week. And thanks for the kind words about the poster.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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