A Broken Bow High School student won the Oklahoma Junior Duck Stamp Competitions Best of Show award for her entry "The Courtship Encounter."
C.C. Stone, a sixteen year old from Broken Bow, received the highest honor for her prisma colored pencil and pastel mixed media rendition depicting a pair of northern pintails. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge hosted the statewide Junior Duck Stamp Competition on March 31. Her artwork will be sent to Washington D.C. to represent Oklahoma in the National Junior Duck Stamp Competition.
The Junior Duck Stamp artwork will be on display at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center throughout the month of April. The Visitor Center is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily except Tuesdays.
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 Stone's artwork was chosen out of more than 290 creations that were submitted from students across the state. The task of selecting the winning artwork was taken on by volunteer judges: Mike Husak, ornithologist and professor at Cameron University; Jack Tyler, ornithologist; Steve Hodge, Billy Jones and Patricia Land, all of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
For further information about the Junior Duck Stamp Competition, please call Claudine Daniel, State Coordinator at 580-429-3087.
Visit the Service's website at http://www.fws.gov.
