16 NEBRASKAland • MARCH 2018
March 3
Volunteer Youth Fishing Instructor
Training
St. Mary's Parish Center, Bellevue
March 10
Wildlife and Watercolors
Wildcat Hills Nature Center, Gering
March 10, 17
Marsh Madness
Ponca State Park, Ponca
March 16
Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission Meeting
Columbus
March 17
Learn to Hunt Spring Turkey
Workshop
Mid-Plains Community College,
McCook
March 24
National Archery in the Schools
Program State Tournament
Speedway Sporting Village, Lincoln
March 25
Spring Turkey Hunting
Archery season opens
March 27
Learn to Hunt Spring Turkey
Workshop
Nebraska Game and Parks Outdoor
Education Center, Lincoln
March 29
Learn to Hunt Spring Turkey
Workshop
Platte River State Park, Louisville
March 31
Muskrat and Beaver
Trapping seasons close for muskrat
and beaver
March 31
Spring Eggstravaganza
Ponca State Park, Ponca
March 31
Becoming and Outdoors-Woman
Catching Up with the Cranes, Fort
Kearny State Recreation Area, Kearney
by Jerry Kane
Contact the Nebraska Game
and Parks Commission
at 402-471-0641 or visit
OutdoorNebraska.
org for more
information. Visit
huntsafenebraska.org for a list
of hunter education classes and
boatsafenebraska.org for a list of
boating safety classes.
Junior Duck
Stamp
By Justin Haag
Students in kindergarten through
12th grade will once again show
off their skills as waterfowl artists
during the Federal Junior Duck Stamp
Competition.
Each year, hundreds of entries
from students throughout Nebraska
are judged at a public event in the
Panhandle. This year's entries, which
are due March 15, will be judged at the
Educational Service Unit 13 center in
Scottsbluff on March 23.
Promise Raumaker, a 13-year-old
student of the Debie Plog Art Studio
in Omaha, won last year's Nebraska
competition. Raumaker used colored
pencil, oil pastel and acrylic paint to
create an image of a king eider in flight
– a large sea duck that spends most of
the year in coastal marine environments
and breeds on the Arctic tundra in June
and July.
The Junior Duck Stamp Conservation
Program, administered by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, provides students
throughout the United States a learning
opportunity that combines both art and
science. Every year, artists and wildlife
educators visit schools to introduce the
competition and assist the students.
Each year's winning entry is
placed on the next year's Nebraska's
waterfowl stamp. It also moves on
to compete against other states'
winners and a chance to be chosen
for the national junior duck stamp – a
collector's item that is available for $5.
For details about the competition,
contact Lydia Patrick, Nebraska's
contest coordinator, at lydia_patrick@
fws.gov. More information and contest
guidelines may be found at fws.gov/
juniorduck.
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h i k i
Learn how to hunt spring turkey by
attending a workshop this month.
Dates are listed below.
The 2018 NASP Tournament will
be held on March 24 at Speedway
Sporting Village in Lincoln.
ARTWORK
BY
PROMISE
RAUMAKER
