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On Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 7:05 PM, Todd Will <todd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Todd Will <tw...@uwlax.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Subject: Fw: A Visit from Will Dilg
To: Will, Todd <todd...@gmail.com>
From: Andrew Ericson <aeri...@uwlax.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 5:08 PM
To: sustainability <sustain...@uwlax.edu>
Cc: Eric Strauss <estr...@uwlax.edu>
Subject: A Visit from Will DilgHello All,
I wanted to share with you an upcoming event that I thought you might enjoy. If you know someone else or students who might be interested, send it along! Apologies if you’ve already received information about this.
On Thursday, October 17th at 7:00pm in the Student Union E-Café (lower level), the River Studies Center and UWL Sustainability will be hosting “A Visit from Will Dilg”. Here is description of what to expect:
Steven Marking plays Will Dilg in an inspiring one-man stage production entitled A Visit From Will Dilg. After suffering from the drowning death of his son in the early 1920s, Dilg rose from the depths of depression to lead an extraordinary national crusade to stop the drainage of our Upper Mississippi River backwaters by forming a great national preserve, our Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
One hundred years ago, in 1924, the passionate crusade of a man by the name of Will Dilg paid off in the creation of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge: 261 river miles and 244,000 acres of protected wetland habitat, extending from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.
One hundred years later, Steven Marking’s passion for this same Refuge inspired him to bring Dilg’s story to life, to give us hope and inspire us all to contribute to its protection and restoration. Marking is a Riverlorian by profession, singing songs and telling stories about the river for American Cruise Lines on the Mississippi River. The refuge was Steve’s back yard growing up just north of La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Pool #7. He created A Visit From Will Dilg in celebration of the Centennial of the refuge.
Will Dilg was a Chicago businessman and an avid sportsman and nature lover, who claimed to spend upwards of 60 days a year fishing the Upper Mississippi backwaters. He watched with growing alarm as the habitats he treasured were degraded and drained en masse for commercial purposes. Dilg lived in the era of the extinction and near-extinction of charismatic species like the Passenger Pigeon, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and the American Bison and he wanted to prevent a similar fate from befalling the fish, waterfowl and other riparian wildlife that lived in or migrated over these wetlands. Dilg saw that the reclaiming of the river’s lands for farming was moving upstream from the Mississippi Delta, and he knew that if someone didn’t act fast the entire river would lose it’s floodplain habitat to developers.
Thanks,
Andrew
Sustainability Program Manager, University Centers | UW-La Crosse
aeri...@uwlax.edu | 608.785.8867 | 3236 Student Union
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