{"id":24,"date":"2009-06-01T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2024-01-27T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:02:11","slug":"tolowa-dunes-state-park-crescent-city-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/tolowa-dunes-state-park-crescent-city-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolowa Dunes State Park, Crescent City CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-1536x559.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Framed-Tolowa-dunes-2048x745.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tolowa Dunes Stewards funded this painting for interpretive and educational efforts. Tolowa Dunes State Park is a 5,000-acre California State Park located on California&#8217;s far North Coast near Crescent City. Lake Earl and Lake Tolowa are there, as well as a significant portion of the relatively large coastal plain around it. As one local scientist said: &#8220;The Lake Earl sand dunes and wetlands represent one of the richest hotspots for bio-diversity of both plants and animals found along the West Coast of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-1024x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-1024x337.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-768x253.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-1536x505.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-2048x674.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent many years living just south of this area and know it well &#8211; so this was a fun project. Just to the north on the Smith River, I painted my very first large-scale interpretive mural back in the 1980&#8217;s for Redwood National Park. That original is still at the Crescent City Visitor Center, and the exhibit still at Hiouchi Visitor Center up on the river. It&#8217;ll probably outlive me!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-1024x324.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-1024x324.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-1536x485.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Toloia-Dunes-smalldpi-2048x647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s the sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a speedy one, even for me. Because of a funding deadline, the painting was finished in less than a week &#8211; but then you guys probably knew that. It&#8217;s painted with acrylic on paper board and is about 40&#8243; wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Click here to see lots of other national and state park interpetive art on our website.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some of you have asked where the full website is with all the puzzles, posters and park exhibit stuff. Just click here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Or, send us an email to opt in or out of our email family &#8211; or just &#8216;talk&#8217; with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading.<br>Larry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-medium-font-size is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolowa Dunes Stewards funded this painting for interpretive and educational efforts. Tolowa Dunes State Park is a 5,000-acre California State Park located on California&#8217;s far North Coast near Crescent City. Lake Earl and Lake Tolowa are there, as well as a significant portion of the relatively large coastal plain around it. As one local scientist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/tolowa-dunes-state-park-crescent-city-ca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tolowa Dunes State Park, Crescent City CA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,86,125],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murals","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-parks","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tolowas-final-snapshot1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13313,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/13313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}