The illustrator of Parkite Melissa Marsted’s new “Wildlife Adventures for Young Readers” book comes with natural clout.

That’s because Alexandra Lehner’s day job is being one of the U.S. Forest Service’s wildlife technicians.

“I work out of the Washburn Ranger District in northern Wisconsin, and I’m an artist on the side,” she said.

Marsted, who needed someone to illustrate her new book, “Rascal’s Year of Adventure,” which will be published on Sept. 20, was on a road trip with her son Peter Bermant when she discovered Lehner’s work.

“I had never been to Michigan, and we decided to visit its upper peninsula in February,” Marsted said. “We then ended up on the banks of Lake Superior in Ashland, Wisconsin, and went into a coffee shop called the Black Cat.”

Marsted discovered some of Lehn

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