{"id":31088,"date":"2020-08-07T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31088"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:47:00","slug":"2021-2022-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/08\/07\/2021-2022-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2022 Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original Work Submissions Taken Until Nov. 10<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49101256356_a1b5314596.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp\" width=\"420\" height=\"289\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020-2021 Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp designed by Jeffrey Klinefelter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artists are invited to submit their original works for the annual Maryland <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Stamp-Design-Contest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Migratory Game Bird Stamp design contest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from now until Nov. 10, 2020. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winning entry will appear on the 2021-2022 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/mgb_stamps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Migratory Game Bird Stamp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hunters purchase to hunt migratory game birds in Maryland.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All entries must be original works, neither copied nor duplicated from any previously published paintings, drawings, prints or photographs. The contest is open to both residents and nonresidents. Each contestant may submit up to three entries with a fee structure of: $15 for one entry, $20 for two and $30 for three. Proceeds help fund game bird and waterfowl research and projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will judge the entries Nov. 12. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, the judging portion of the contest will not be conducted publicly as in previous years, but judges will convene in a controlled environment following Gov. Hogan\u2019s health and safety protocols. The contest winner will be announced Nov. 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Complete contest rules and entry forms can be found on the contest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/2021-2022_MigratoryGameBirdStampContest.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">flier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> available on the department\u2019s website. All artwork along with the appropriate fees should be sent to Chris Markin, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 580 Taylor Avenue, E-1, Annapolis, MD 21401.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Work Submissions Taken Until Nov. 10 Artists are invited to submit their original works for the annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp design contest from now until Nov. 10, 2020. The winning entry will appear on the 2021-2022 Migratory Game Bird Stamp hunters purchase to hunt migratory game birds in Maryland.<\/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":[957,3172,13],"tags":[4046,3030],"class_list":["post-31088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088","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=31088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31089,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions\/31089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}