Idaho Forest Products Commission

Arbor Day Student Photo Contest

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2025 Arbor Day Photo Contest

To celebrate Arbor Day, the Idaho Forest Products Commission sponsors a Photo Contest each year. The competition is open to all Idaho youth in 5th-12th grades. For the 2024 contest, young photographers addressed the theme, Seasons of Change: The Dynamics of Idaho’s Forests. In addition to their photo, contestants provided a statement sharing their vision of the photo’s portrayal of the theme.

Deadline: April 7th, 2025

Contestant:

8476

Grade:

7

Photo caption:

Dark Hibernation

Photographer's Statement:

This rose bush is in hibernation. Something so pretty in the spring can be so dead and bad looking, then one day in the spring it will start getting leaves again. In a couple weeks it will bloom and be so pretty every year it is so extravagant looking.