The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced the winners of its fish stamp competitions, including an artist from Northern Minnesota.
One stamp depicts trout or salmon, and the other depicts walleye, according to the announcement on Aug. 3.
The DNR chose Virginia artist John Barnard’s oil painting for the walleye stamp and Minneapolis artist Melissa Mickelson’s acrylic painting of a lake trout for the trout and salmon stamp. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Barnard said…