CHS Artwork Winners

The botany/zoology department at the Cabot High School entered some students artwork in the '3rd Annual Arkansas Endangered Species Day Art Contest' and we are proud to announce that Samantha Wood won 2nd place and Edward Kil won 3rd place.

They each received an engraved plaque as seen in the picture and a gift card. With over 1,300 entries across Arkansas, these two students were selected! You can click here and it will direct you to the Game and Fish website where their work is displayed as being part of Cabot High School!

     Second Place - Samantha Wood                                  Third Place - Edward Kil

 

Description of Assignment:
ECOSYSTEMS: This category is for grades 9 -12 only. Each year we will select an ecosystem to increase awareness of the threats to the habitats the endangered species rely on for survival. Artwork must highlight one or more endangered species, their habitat, and one or more threats to this habitat. This year the spotlight ecosystem is the pine flatwoods.

Students must depict the pine flatwoods, associated endangered species, and threats to the ecosystem. The pine flatwoods were once found throughout the coastal plain of Arkansas. They are characterized by mature short leaf and occasionally loblolly pine stands with widely spaced trees and an understory filled with a diversity of grasses, legumes, and forbs. The federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker calls this ecosystem home. However, poor logging practices, including clear cutting and removal of fire from the ecosystem have destroyed most of the pine flatwoods in Arkansas.