Congratulations to Alain Soltys-Gray, 17, of Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau, who took top honors in the 2021 Alaska Junior Duck Stamp Contest with a painting of mallards titled “Ducks at Dusk”. Alain’s artwork was chosen as the Best of Show out of 149 entries from across the state and will represent Alaska in […]
James Hautman, an artist from Chaska, Minn., is the winner of the 2016 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. The announcement was made today by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Steve Guertin at the annual contest, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Hautman’s acrylic painting of Canada geese will be […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Wednesday joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council (AMBCC) to announce new guidance to implement the federal duck stamp exemption he ushered into law during the 113th Congress for subsistence hunters in rural Alaska. “Today, I’m proud to announce the […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Tuesday applauded the Senate’s passage of H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which included an amendment he added to the bill in Committee to exempt subsistence hunters in rural Alaska from being required to purchase the annual permit. “The passage of the Federal Duck Stamp […]