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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Dale Bowman

Changes and opportunities at Dixon Waterfowl Refuge

Road trips once or twice a year usually include a stop at Dixon Waterfowl Refuge. (Dale Bowman)

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.

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