Area children participatee in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. Drawings were submitted to the IDNR in late March.
The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest competition is an annual educational program and art contest, focusing on wetland and waterfowl conservation. The contest is for K-12 Illinois students enrolled in public, private or home schools.
Visit the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest site to see the results of the national competition.
"The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program, begun in 1989 with a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, encourages conservation through arts. Its goals is to teach the importance of conserving the Nation's wetlands and the expand the knowledge of the Federal Duck Stamp as a conservation program. Congress passed the Federal Junior Ducks Stamp Conservation and Design Act of 1994 to authorize the US Fish and Wildlife Service to use revenue from the sale of the Junior Duck Stamps to promote conservation education in the form of awards and scholarships to the students, teachers, and schools that participate in the program, This Act further allows for corporate and individual contributions to the awards and scholarship program, and it encourages partnerships with state agencies, conservation groups, and local communities."
From the 2002 US Fish and Wildlife Service pamphlet: The Federal Duck Stamp Story.
