GREENWICH — Richard Prager was smitten as a young man, developing a passion that has lasted a lifetime. It was a small piece of paper with a beautiful duck printed on it — the federal duck stamp ...

Minnesota is the production floor of North America's duck factory. Our northwest prairie pothole region is a major part of a landscape vital to maintenance of duck populations. That's the observation ...

Two local teenagers were unfamiliar with the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program and Art Contest until last summer. Now, the two reigning art contest finalists have paintings traveling ...

Black took to Facebook to share his winning entry of a pintail. It was a good year for pintails at the annual Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, which took place at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa ...

A painting of a gadwall by Boiling Springs artists Gerald Putt tied for fifth in the recent Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Boiling Springs wildlife artist Gerald Putt's painting of a gadwall tied for ...

MADISON (WKOW) — An Oregon High School student was awarded Best in Show at the Wisconsin Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. A news release from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said 16-year-old Sarah ...

His painting of a pair of black ducks at rest in a cattail marsh was selected for use as the 2013 Pennsylvania waterfowl management stamp over another of his paintings, that of a pair of northern ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail, the U.S ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Adam Grimm, a wildlife artist from Wallace, South Dakota, has won the Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a third time. Grimm’s ...

Hautman’s entry, “White-Fronted Geese,” won the 2011-2012 Federal Duck Stamp, a highly competitive and prestigious contest that draws between 250 and 300 artists a year. Hautman’s winning painting ...

North Dakota artist Scot Storm spent weeks on his painting of a green-winged teal duck, but it just wasn't turning out the way he wanted. He had a looming deadline to enter his artwork in the annual ...