{"id":9560,"date":"2015-12-21T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:51:20","slug":"fifth-graders-encouraged-to-show-appreciation-for-trees-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/12\/21\/fifth-graders-encouraged-to-show-appreciation-for-trees-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth-Graders Encouraged to Show Appreciation for Trees through Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8767\/16899985208_59bdfbefdf.jpg\" alt=\"Last year's First Place Overall by Jenny Ha from Washington Co.\" width=\"389\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year&#8217;s First Place Overall by Jenny Ha from Washington Co.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15pt;text-align: center;background: white\"><em><strong>Top posters will win tree plantings at their school<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Calling fifth-graders across Maryland! The Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandforestryboards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Forest Conservancy District Boards<\/a>, is sponsoring an Arbor Day poster contest,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Trees Are Terrific\u2026.in Cities and Towns!<\/i><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Fith-grade students are encouraged to share their appreciation for Maryland\u2019s forests and trees through original works of art. The department will choose the top three posters to receive tree plantings at the winning artist\u2019s school \u2500 first<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>place will win 15 trees; second place will receive 10 trees; and third place will get five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">All posters must between 8.5- by 11-inches and 22- by 28-inches, and done in marker, crayon, paint pens, watercolor, ink, acrylic, regular or colored pencil, and\/or tempera paint. They must be delivered or mailed to one of the<span style=\"color: #333333\"> state forest service offices <\/span>no later than 4 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/2016_ArborDayPosterContest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">Click here<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for more information<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Posters will be judged on a county level and then submitted to <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/programs\/urban\/mcfc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the Maryland Urban and Community Forestry Committee<\/a> to compete at the statewide level. Winners\u2019 teachers will be notified by March 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Questions or comments may be directed to\u00a0Anne Gilbert at 410-260-8510 or<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\"><a href=\"mailto:anne.gilbert@maryland.gov\">anne.gilbert@maryland.gov<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top posters will win tree plantings at their school Calling fifth-graders across Maryland! The Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with the Maryland Forest Conservancy District Boards, is sponsoring an Arbor Day poster contest,\u00a0Trees Are Terrific\u2026.in Cities and Towns!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}