{"id":18905,"date":"2017-11-27T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=18905"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:51:23","slug":"maryland-fifth-graders-invited-to-submit-arbor-day-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/11\/27\/maryland-fifth-graders-invited-to-submit-arbor-day-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Fifth-Graders Invited to Submit Arbor Day Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Annual Contest Taking Submissions until Feb. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2839\/33860890465_420ccc77c1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of The 2017 Arbor Day Poster Contest statewide winning entry, submitted by Clara Pham from St. Mary\u2019s County\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Arbor Day Poster Contest statewide winning entry, submitted by Clara Pham from St. Mary\u2019s County.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/fboards.aspx\">Forest Conservancy District Boards<\/a>\u00a0invites all Maryland fifth-graders in private and public schools to participate in the annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/2017_ArborDayPosterContest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arbor Day Poster Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for 2018 is \u201cTrees Are Terrific&#8230;and Make Communities Healthy!\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>All entries need to be delivered to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/county-map.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Forest Service<\/a>\u00a0office by noon Feb. 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students are encouraged to share their appreciation for Maryland\u2019s forests and trees through original works of art. Poster sizes must be no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 22 by 28 inches. They must be drawn in\u00a0acrylic, crayon, ink, marker, paint pens, regular or colored pencil, tempera paint or watercolor.<\/p>\n<p>Posters will be judged on a county level and then submitted to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/programs\/urban\/mcfc.aspx\">Maryland Urban and Community Forest Committee<\/a>\u00a0to compete at the statewide level.<\/p>\n<p>The department will then choose the top three winning posters that will receive tree plantings at the artists&#8217; schools \u2500 first place will win 15 trees; second place will receive 10; and third place will get five. Teachers will be notified by March 21.<\/p>\n<p>Comments or questions may be directed to <a href=\"mailto:Anne.Gilbert@maryland.gov?subject=Contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Gilbert<\/a>\u00a0at 410-260-8510.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Contest Taking Submissions until Feb. 2 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0and\u00a0Forest Conservancy District Boards\u00a0invites all Maryland fifth-graders in private and public schools to participate in the annual\u00a0Arbor Day Poster Contest. The theme for 2018 is \u201cTrees Are Terrific&#8230;and Make Communities Healthy!\u201d\u00a0All entries need to be delivered to a\u00a0Maryland Forest Service\u00a0office by noon Feb. 2,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/11\/27\/maryland-fifth-graders-invited-to-submit-arbor-day-posters\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[3794,2940,2941,4050,4052,2942],"class_list":["post-18905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-anne-gilbert","tag-arbor-day","tag-arbor-day-poster-contest","tag-forest-conservancy-district-boards","tag-maryland-urban-and-community-forest-committee","tag-st-marys-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18925,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions\/18925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}