Recent News on Lisa Loucks Christenson:
November:

Lisa signed a one-year contract with World Talk Radio and will begin broadcasting December 5, 2007 6 a.m. in her new time slot. Her premiere show is with Tom Wilson (Ziggy)

Lisa has extended her contract another full year on the Voice America Network.

Starting November 15, 2007 Lisa begins her new time slot on BBS Radio, as their morning anchor. Premeire show is Stories Last Shared: Tribute to Porter Wagoner

Lisa's Walk The Talk Show Romance Author Showcase premieres November 20, 2007, with award-winning Harlequin Intrigue author, B. J. Daniels.

Lisa has two exibits on display at the National Eagle Center:

Prelude to Year Three Dancer & Daedee, her three year documentary on one pair of bald eagles raising their first five eaglets during all weather, documented daily.

Winter Bugs! An miniscule collection of insect photos documenting their daily lives during a Minnesota winter! Lisa's book, Winter Bugs! Is in its second printing and should be out for the holidays. October:

Lisa has moved into her new studios at 3125 Wellner Drive NE, Rochester, MN 55906
Lisa a featured guest on the syndicated show www.thebigwild.com, The Big Wild on her bald eagle and outdoor documentaries
September 19, 2001 Lisa's award-winning story, The Model Maker featured in Times Plain Dealer article: Cresco used as backdrop for prize winning story
KAAL Television (December 15, 2006) on her Winter Bugs! Exhibit
The Rochester Visitor Magazine (February 26, 2007) Winter Bug Exhibit
April 2006 Lisa donated her time and photos of and to the March of Dimes Walk America
Rochester Post-Bulletin (December 8, 2006) on her Winter Bug Exhibit
Rochester Post-Bulletin (June 13, 2006) on her Bald Eagle and Walk The Burn Documentary
Collector Print Fall Flight 2006 Created for Ducks Unlimited
April 2007 Collector Print Conservation Through Volunteerism created for Ducks Unlimited
October 2006 Lisa donated and her time and photos of The Empty Bowls event for Channel One Food Shelves
The National Eagle Center (March 10, 2007) Lisa was one of the professional speakers on her eagle documentaries
Novemember 10, 2006 Lisa completed her 590 consecutive day marsh project with over 750,000 images shot.
HBCI Television (December 2006) Lisa was interviewed on her exploration of the Marnach House in the Whitewater Management Area
Lisa will return to THE BIG WILD in January 2008 as she begins year four with her eagle pair study. Read more about Lisa's eagles project at www.lisalouckschristenson.net.

Lisa's Books:
Winter Bugs! (December 2006) Hardcover
The Eagle Nest Coffee Bar & Cafe (2005 bald eagle nest project year one) TBA
Year Two Dancer & Daedee: Epiphany Season (2006 bald eagle nest project year two) TBA
Year Three Dancer & Daedee: Calling All Scribes (2007 bald eagle nest project, year three) TBA
Harley Hippo & The Crane Game written by Lisa Loucks Christenson and illustrated by Bill Looney (September 2008)

Excerpts:
Article on Lisa in the Post-Bulletin Rochester, Minnesota 6/13/07
ELBA -- In the next few years, you'll be able to sit in your recliner, sip a cup of coffee, and enjoy crisp, startling images of bald eagles raising their young, mosquitoes feeding on the blood of a frog and wildflowers in the heart of the Whitewater Valley. Savor them, enjoy the work of Lisa Loucks Christenson of Rochester. But know that she went through more than a year of mud and mosquitoes, cold and fog, snow and heat to get them.
You should also know that she loved it, enjoyed the daily trip to the valley in snowstorm and fog, relished slithering through muck to sneak up on a frog, and waiting for hours to get a shot of an eagle.
She has fallen in love with the area around the former town of Beaver in the heart of the Whitewater Wildlife Management Area, the largest block of public land in southern Minnesota.
To get the images, she has gone to the same two marshes near Beaver for more than a year. It's a form of time-lapse photography, only she shoots the same tree (and on the same trip, the same cornfield and barn) and other details daily, along with anything else that catches her eye.
In the past two years, Christenson has also followed two eagles as they raise their young.
To do all of it has required several digital cameras and a lot of clothing. Last week, she wore faded camouflage pants and shirt, and her hair was wrapped in a red bandana. It's not fashionable, but when you're slopping through a marsh and plowing through nettles taller than you are, fashion fades, and reality rules.
She gladly wears that gear in summer, and dresses for minus-30 ("I literally felt like a walking marshmallow") in winter to get pictures for two books on eagles and a third book on a year in the life of two marshes. The one eagle book is due out in October, while the marsh book is due in April 2007, she said. The second eagle book will come out later. . . .
Credit: John Weiss Post-Bulletin Outdoor Writer (In order to view this complete story you need a Post-Bulletin subscription.)
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Rochester, MN (PRWEB) July 5, 2007 -- Lisa's Walk The Talk Show Second Season Premiere,"Support Our Troops" Special Broadcast Featuring Country Legends Charlie Daniels and Jim Owen, and more guests send empowering message to our troops. Lisa's Walk The Talk "Support Our Troops" - Special featuring Country Legend Charlie Daniels. Charlie blasts open our two hour special broadcast, featuring his new CD, Live From Iraq. During the interview with Charlie, a glimpse into the man with the "fiddle of gold" shares his stories from visiting the troops, offers his prayers for our troops and he closes off the first hour with a message from a soldier you won't want to miss. Shauna Fleming founder of AMillionThanks.org tells her story of how to support our troops through writing letters to the soldiers and what a letter from a stranger means to them. In the second hour Lisa debuts the song, "Thank You" co-written by Brad Avery of Third Day, and Scott Thomas. Brad shares his walk with Jesus and his music, and his deep gratitude to our troops. Also joining Lisa is another country legend, Jim Owen, as he shares his song, "I Saw Jesus Waving The Stars and Stripes." Jim explains how the song came about, and shares his deepest gratitude in an eloquent manner for our troops and their families. Also featured in this two hour show is the international roll out of John Tigert's song, Coming Home. John shares his heart-tugging message to the families and soldiers who are waiting to come home.
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Wabasha, MN (PRWeb) March 9, 2007 -- SOAR WITH THE EAGLES WEEKEND at The National Eagle Center is this weekend March 10th and 11th. Lisa Loucks Christenson will be the first speaker of the day on March 10th, 2007, discussing her eagle journey, now in its third year, with the same pair of bald eagles raising their offspring.
Says Loucks-Christenson, "I'm offering the attendee's first peek at my rare and never-before-seen shots of the sibling eagles lives I documented, both on and off the nest." Loucks-Christenson was able to locate the eaglets for over ten weeks daily, after fledging and she continued their story for her second book on eagles, "Year Two Dancer & Daedee: Epiphany Season." Loucks-Christenson began her third book on this eagle pair in January of 2007, and visitors at The National Eagle Center will be the first to see the eagles survival in the wild while enduring -45 below with wind-chills, winter storms, blizzards, and the start of 2007's nesting season.
"I wanted something that said 'survival' so I started a month earlier this year, and have been out there documenting the eagles, and wildlife while temperatures hit -45 below with wind chill for almost three weeks we had that cold snap. Then we got hit with a blizzard that lasted two days, and following that, another winter storm. The snow is up to my waist in some spots as I hike to my posts. Almost forty days into the project--I have my shots that speak 'survival'. I hope people will look at my work and see that it's not easy for these animals and birds out there," Loucks-Christenson added.
Lisa Loucks Christenson is a national-award winning author & photographer based out of Rochester, Minnesota. Lisa recently completed her Walk the Burn documentary in the Whitewater Management Area. She's eager to share her stories for stalking and blending in with her subjects habitat allowing her to capture their daily lives in the wetlands. As a bonus, Lisa will give you an intimate look at the private lives of a pair of bald eagles raising their offspring during her three year journey.
The National Eagle Center SOAR WITH THE EAGLES WEEKEND
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POST-BULLETIN Rochester, Minnesota 12/8/07 Bring on the bugs Frozen, but living, wonderland pulls photographer
". . . The bug book is the first of several books Loucks-Christenson wil produce from daily visits to the the marsh for nearly two years. . . . Her visits ended last month during the region's first big snow of the year, on Nov. 10. Just a month before, she'd watched the cycle of life come to a close with a wasp, who'd crafted a nest and nurtured nine babies to life and beyond and then settled to the cold October ground eventually convered in the snow of the season.
"I saw this wasp nest and watched these nine babies from the beginning," Loucks-Christenson said. "I gave them water off my fingernail. I was only stung once by one of the babies. . . At one point, the nest came down, so I tied it up with a grass blade and eventually that mamma cemented it up."
That is what is so interesting about Loucks-Christenson's up close and personal shots of lifes' little things. There's a story behind every image. Loucks-Christenson can relate them as if though it was yesterday. Her journalls keep the dates, data and observations straight.:
"We had a winter storm with five to nine inches coming in, and schools were canceled the next day, but I still had to go. I had bugs to find. The minus -29 with wind chills set in over the next few days but still I found life: a Wooly bear caterpillar scratched up by a coyote, -29 below on the 19th (..hree red velvet mites -29 below on the 20th."
The gallery exhibit kicks off the publication of "Winter Bugs!" Which also marks the beginning of a string of books slated for publication . . . by Mike Dougherty Post-Bulletin
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365 Day Controlled Burn Marsh Documentary Completed!

Lisa Loucks-Christenson, a Rochester, Minnesota native, completed her 365 day documentary on April 7, 2006. Loucks-Christenson’s book, WALK THE BURN: A 365 Day Journey, will be available in Spring 2007. Loucks-Christenson documented over 400,000 images during this daily documentary regrowth of a controlled burn marsh in the Whitewater Management Area in Altura, Minnesota. The book is both a photo essay of the flora and fauna in the marsh returning and a diary of the marsh shown from the marshes perspective. Two exhibits are planned, WINTER BUGS! opens Winter 2006 and is a collection of over 250 species of insects Loucks-Christenson documented while in the marsh during Winter 2005-2006. Many of these species are as small or smaller than a grain of sand. The second exhibit, Walk The Burn: A 365 Day Journey, is a photo collection opening in Spring 2007 to promote the release of her book.

Photo & Writing Credits:

Ducks Unlimited, The National Eagle Center, The Rochester Visitor, Kona Coast Coffee & Ice Cream, Plainview News, Post-Bulletin (story on Lisa/photo See Page 3D, June 13, 2006), Post-Bulletin (story on Lisa's Winter Bugs! exhibit. December 8, 2006, http://www.agpix.com/view_caption.php?image_id=42905&showcase=37, Esquire, Self Magazine, Hearst, Anchor Marketing, D & D Commodities, Woman's World, Diversion, Perspectives, Hazmat, Bubba Gump Seafood Co., A Lot of Fun & Games (gameboard) Allured Publishing, Skin, Inc., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NAHEE, Kind News, HSUS, Rourke, Rigby Education, Kirchoff/Wohlberg, Travel World International, Trips & Journeys, Writer's Digest, PDN, Disney, Harcourt, Grolier, Inc., Writer's Weekly, Pearson Education, Prentice-Hall, Nursery Retailer, Magazine, Function-Thru-Form, IBM, HyVee, The Creative Company, Heinemann/Raintree, Heinemann Library, Lynn Stone Images, Career World, Nursery Retailer Magazine, ACHRNews, Valutec Card Solution, North America Bancard, Author House, Times Plain Dealer, Marshall Cavendish Publishers, Lynn Stone Images, Boardwalk Auto, Idea Initiative, National Enquirer

Professional Memberships:

PPA (Professional Photographers of America)
East-West News Bureau
NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association)
NPPA (National Press Photographers Association)
SCWBI (Society of Children’s Book Writer’s & Illustrators)
SAA (Stock Artists Alliance)Lisa is an award-winning outdoor writer/photographer:
ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers)
CONTACT:
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(507) 536-4082
Mailing Address:
Lisa Loucks Christenson
P.O. Box 9177
Rochester, MN 55903-9177
Street Address: Loucks-Christenson Publishing, LLC
3160 Wellner Drive NE
Rochester, MN 55906
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