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Oregon Junior Duck Stamp Contest
Pacific Region, April 17, 2004
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In her dual capacity as Oregon State's Junior Duck Stamp (JDS) Program Coordinator, the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex's Administrative Officer Pam Johnson did a great job for the third year in a row, organizing and running the JDS program. In January, Pam mailed out over 2,400 entry forms to public, private and home school teachers and students across the state. Her efforts, and those of the refuge complex's outreach staff introducing the program into the classrooms, resulted in a record 695 art entries that qualified for the 2004 competition. With the swift approach of the Junior Duck Stamp (JDS) art competition deadline, Refuge Operations Specialist Dawn Grafe and Americorps member Sue Peters of the Oregon Coast NWR complex visited classrooms in February to teach waterfowl conservation through the arts. Students from Chapman Hill Elementary in Salem, Seashore Family Literacy Center in Waldport, and Isaac Newton Magnet School (INMS) in Newport learned about waterfowl anatomy and sketching techniques. Additionally, students at INMS participated in a JDS mock judging, which gave them the chance to step into the shoes of the judges. The students that were taught in February (180 in all) were of different ages and artistic abilities, but all had fun using goose skulls, stuffed ducks, slides, and their own artwork to increase their knowledge.

Judging of the art work occurred on March 30th in the Portland Regional Office. Judges this year included Carolyn Bohan, Region 1 Chief NWRS; Mark Nebeker, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Esther Lev, The Wetlands Conservancy; Bruce Taylor, Oregon Habitat Joint Venture; and Ram Papish, Wildlife Artist. Ram is the featured artist for the 2004 International Migratory Bird Day poster, and he autographed posters for each winner and for interested Regional Office employees following the judging.

The JDS Best of Show Award went to 17 year old Ryu-Hee Kim of Valley Catholic School in Beaverton, Oregon for her depiction of an adult male red-breasted merganser with two young. Ryu-Hee was one of two students present for the judging, and tears flowed as she learned she had won the first art contest that she has ever entered. Ryu-Hee is from Korea, where her family still resides. She chose to come alone to the U.S., accompanied only by a family friend, for a better chance to study and express her talent. She has never had any formal art training. Ryu-Hee's drawing is a symbolic representation of her family. The adult duck represents her mother. She says, ?The two baby ducks are me and my brother. The clear water is my dad. The mother duck is protecting her baby ducks with love just like my mom, who always would be there for me no matter how far away. The water is something that ducks cannot live without.? The Oregon JDS Award Ceremony hosted by the Refuge Complex took place on Saturday April 17th in Corvallis, Oregon.

For more information, visit the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex Web site at: http://oregoncoast.fws.gov

No contact information available. Please contact Charles Traxler, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov


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