{"id":35513,"date":"2021-12-16T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=35513"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:24:50","slug":"winning-artwork-chosen-for-2022-2023-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/12\/16\/winning-artwork-chosen-for-2022-2023-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Artwork Chosen for 2022-2023 Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Depiction of Snow Geese Wins Annual Contest<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51750574776_0470547ccd.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of snow geese above a cornfield\" width=\"401\" height=\"281\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Towson resident Jim Taylor&#8217;s illustration will adorn the 2022-23 Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Towson resident Jim Taylor won this year\u2019s 48th annual Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest held by the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Judges chose Taylor\u2019s depiction of snow geese flying over a cornfield to be featured on the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/mgb_stamps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stamps hunters purchase to hunt all migratory game birds in the state<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is an honor to participate in and win the contest with my snow goose submission,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cThis is my fifth time winning and they are all special.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new stamps will be available for purchase in 2022. Proceeds from the stamps\u2019 sale fund migratory game bird research and habitat enhancement on public lands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCongratulations to our winner and all participants. It was a great collection of entries representing many species of waterfowl and our first winning submission of snow geese,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWe appreciate and thank all of the artists who participated this year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depiction of Snow Geese Wins Annual Contest Towson resident Jim Taylor won this year\u2019s 48th annual Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest held by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Judges chose Taylor\u2019s depiction of snow geese flying over a cornfield to be featured on the stamps hunters purchase to hunt all migratory game birds<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/12\/16\/winning-artwork-chosen-for-2022-2023-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design\/\">&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":[957,3172,13],"tags":[5239,4960,4046,5240,5264,5045],"class_list":["post-35513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-art-contest","tag-hunting","tag-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp","tag-migratory-bird","tag-towson","tag-wildlife-and-heritage-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35513","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=35513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35532,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35513\/revisions\/35532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}