
As Rick Seibert remembers it, “I got hired in Vic’s Tap drinking a glass of bourbon with Al.”
Seibert, 67, is retiring as the only manager of the site now known as Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, “a 3,000-acre mosaic of lakes, marsh, meadows, prairie, savanna, and woodlands” on a former floodplain by the Illinois River, south of Hennepin.