{"id":57038,"date":"2019-12-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/forest-service-fishing-for-student-art-of-fish-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2019-12-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T12:00:00","slug":"forest-service-fishing-for-student-art-of-fish-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/forest-service-fishing-for-student-art-of-fish-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Service fishing for student art of fish in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forest Service fishing for student art of fish in Alaska<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service and Wildlife Forever, a conservation nonprofit, have jointly announced the 2020 deadline for the Alaska Fish Art competition.<\/p>\n<p>Students K-12 are eligible to compete for both Alaska and national prizes. Entrants can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifeforever.org\/home\/state-fish-art\/official-fish-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draw any state fish<\/a>, listed on the competition website, along with more rules. Entrants will also be required to turn in a one-page essay about the fish they&rsquo;ve drawn, in addition to the 9&#215;12 drawing of the fish.<\/p>\n<p>Students who choose to illustrate Alaska&rsquo;s state fish &mdash; the chinook or king salmon &mdash; will also be eligible to win the Alaska Fish Heritage Award.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is intended to raise awareness of fishing and marine conservation, the press release says. Entries are group in grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.<\/p>\n<p>Entrants should submit their submissions to the following address no later than March 31:<\/p>\n<p><em>USDA Forest Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Attn: Bobbie Jo Skibo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PO Box 21628<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau, AK 99802<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, check out the website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifeforever.org\/home\/state-fish-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.wildlifeforever.org\/home\/state-fish-art\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How good are your fish drawing skills? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":57039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[149,674,588],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-outdoors","tag-contests","tag-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}