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The Junior Ranger program is nationwide and in most National Parks. I’ve contributed to a few in the past, providing art for the activity books. If you don’t know, it works like this: your kiddo asks at the visitor center for the book, they fill out the fun pages of puzzles and questions, many requiring getting out in the park – then get the Junior Ranger badge when you turn it back in before you leave. It’s a big deal, with millions of kids involved. Now, a few of the bigger state parks are getting into the action, and I just finished some art for Deception Pass State Park here in Puget Sound. Here’s a link to the national program. https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/kids\/parks-with-junior-ranger-programs.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Deception Pass has many habitats, beach, dunes, old-growth forest, cliffs and freshwater lakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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This page is about soil and the bacteria and fungi that live in it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Cliffs near the bay have distinctive plants, like this gumweed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Oystercatcher, orchre stars, clams and crabs are around the rocky tidepools.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sandy dunes are shown here, with the San Juan Islands offshore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This is the sixth project I’ve done for this park, a small place packed with beauty. It’s suffering from too many people and too much noise from Navy jets training right over the park, but I still like to make art about these places. It helps me connect to them. Good nature doesn’t always have to be wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Junior Ranger program is nationwide and in most National Parks. I’ve contributed to a few in the past, providing art for the activity books. If you don’t know, it works like this: your kiddo asks at the visitor center for the book, they fill out the fun pages of puzzles and questions, many requiring … Continue reading Jr Rangers Art at Deception Pass<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[180,3,4,253],"tags":[223,190,288,194,188],"class_list":["post-8754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-new-painting-post","category-new-published-story","category-washington-state-parks","tag-deception-pass-state-park","tag-interpretive-art","tag-junior-rangers","tag-larry-eifert","tag-washington-state-parks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Deception-Pass-Pools-of-Life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}