A Broken Bow High School student won the Oklahoma Junior Duck Stamp Competitions Best of Show award for her entry "Strutting His Stuff for the Ladies."
C.C. Stone, a fifteen year old from Broken Bow, received the highest honor for her prisma and pastels mixed media rendition depicting a male wood duck. On April 6, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge hosted the state-wide Junior Duck Stamp Competition. The artwork will now be sent on to Washington D.C. to represent Oklahoma in the National Junior Duck Stamp Competition.
The Junior Duck Stamp artwork will be on display throughout the month of April at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center,
northwest of
Lawton. The hours of operation for the Visitor Center are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily and closed on Tuesdays.
To visit the Refuge class=paragraph mso-ansi-;take Highway 49 (exit 45) off I-44. Go west 10 miles to the Refuge gate. If coming from Highway 62, take Highway 115 (Cache exit) north to the Refuge Gate.
The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program is an integrated art and science curriculum developed to teach environmental science and habitat while exploring the aesthetic qualities of wildlife and nature.
Miss Stones artwork was chosen out of more than 265 creations that were submitted from students across the state. The task of selecting the winning artwork was taken on by volunteer judges: Bill Graves, Artist; Kinson Bartin, Artist; Jack Tyler, Ornithologist; Stacy Sawyer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; and, Tamera Paul, Student Conservation Association.
For further information about the Junior Duck Stamp Competition, please call Claudine Daniel, State Coordinator (580-429-3221).
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 544 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resources offices and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American tribal governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
-http://southwest.fws.gov-
To request an electronic copy of the winning entry, send email request to "elizabeth_slown@fws.gov
