{"id":1351,"date":"2010-10-21T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:30:44","slug":"canada-geese-usfws-national-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2010\/10\/canada-geese-usfws-national-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Geese Painting on the USFWS National Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My painting of a pair of Canada Geese on calm water tied for 5th place in the USFWS 2011 Federal Duck Stamp<\/a> competition held at the David Brower Center\u00a0in Berkley, California last week.<\/p>\n

The painting will be a part of the National tour around the country in 2010-2011 with stops including the\u00a0Easton Waterfowl Festival in Maryland, San Bernadino County Museum in California, Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on the North Carolina coast, and others. \u00a0Please see the Events page for a complete list of venues<\/a> (more being added shortly for 2011).<\/p>\n

I have been involved in the Federal program since I was eligible and began entering the Junior Duck Stamp competition (for student artists) in 1996. \u00a0In 1998, my work was chosen as the National runner-up which brought my family and I to Washington, DC for ceremonies and tours. \u00a0Additionally, my sister’s work was chosen as the national winner in 2000 and various trips for events as well.<\/p>\n

“Federal Duck Stamps are a vital tool for\u00a0wetland conservation<\/a>. Ninety-eight <\/em><\/span><\/span>cents out of every dollar generated by the sales of Federal Duck Stamps goes directly to purchase or lease wetland habitat for protection in the\u00a0National Wildlife Refuge System<\/a>. Understandably, the Federal Duck Stamp Program has been called one of the most successful conservation programs ever initiated and is a highly effective way to conserve America\u2019s natural resources.” \u00a0Read more about the US Federal Duck Stamp Program on the Government website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/duckstamps\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My painting of a pair of Canada Geese on calm water tied for 5th place in the USFWS 2011 Federal Duck Stamp competition held at the David Brower Center\u00a0in Berkley, California last week. The painting will be a part of the National tour around the country in 2010-2011 with stops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11,17,18,20,31],"tags":[67,1547,112,1788,140,144,167,173,1545,214,1546,542,322,325,326,390,408,430,1548,444,450,472,474],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-galleries-shows","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-paintings-of-birds","category-waterfowl-ducks-geese-paintings-sketches","tag-artists","tag-canada-geese","tag-center","tag-conservation","tag-draft","tag-duck","tag-family","tag-federal-duck-stamp","tag-federal-duck-stamps","tag-habitat","tag-junior-duck-stamp","tag-maryland","tag-page","tag-painting","tag-pair","tag-sister","tag-stamp","tag-trips","tag-usfws","tag-water","tag-waterfowl","tag-work","tag-www"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}