Where Eaglets Sleep: 2007 Floods of Winona County
A Lisa Loucks-Christenson Documentary – 20th Anniversary Edition
Releasing January 4, 2027

Twenty years ago, during the third year of my Bald Eagle Documentary™, I captured Winona County's spring flash floods—raw terror amid the eaglets' rising journey.

That March 13, 2007, in Beaver Creek Valley's Whitewater Management Area, my two companions and I hiked from sunrise through 29 inches of melting snow. By afternoon, a flash flood swelled a meandering creek into a half-mile-wide icy torrent. Trapped with no cell service, we waded waist-deep water, ice-chunks breezing past, balanced across a spinning log over a newborn waterfall, clawed back up the ravine so we could go back down the bluff to see if the truck was even still there—surviving by faith, grit, and each other.

Core Focus: Spring Survival

This book delivers visceral, never-before-seen photos from Altura, Beaver, Elba, and beyond—before-and-after scenes, intimate interviews, faces of resilience as our community bonded stronger.

From tadpole girl to Bug Lady to Eagle Lady, my coverage aired on KTTC News NBC, Lisa's Walk The Talk Show, Plainview News, and my news sites—Winona County's enduring record from the front lines.

20th Anniversary Highlights

Exclusive reflections on two decades of healing. Images preview forthcoming books: 2007, Year Three: Dancer & Daedee, Calling All Scribes, Struggling for Existence: What Nature Shared. Even floods can't clip wings forever.

Winona County, this is our story—floods that reshaped us all.

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Where Eaglets Sleep: 2007 Floods of Winona County

A Lisa Loucks-Christenson Documentary