Hello my fellow ecologists and naturalists

*We mods (and maybe you too!) have been horribly busy with schoolwork as of recent. So we decided to do a class mandated touch grass session! We have done a contest about the outdoors in the past, but its been awhile and I miss the cool mountain air, don't you? Anyhow... *

Make a comic about Nature!

Specific Contest Rules

- your comic must be about nature. America (and Canada and Mexico) has plenty of nature, so go crazy.

General Contest Rules

• You must follow the official Stateball Tutorial.
• You must follow the official Constitution of Stateball.
• The comic must have a minimum of 3 panels and a maximum of 8 panels.
• The comic must have been written and drawn entirely by yourself.
• No animated GIFs accepted.
• No photorealism.
• Post your comic to the subreddit with the blue "Contest Entry" flair.
• You may post more than one entry, but only the highest performing of your comics will be able to qualify for a gun award. For example, if you post two contest entries and they get 1st and 3rd, you do not get two sets of different guns; you would only get the Golden Guns award.
• The deadline for submitting your entry is Saturday, June 3RD at 21:00 GMT
  

Choosing the winner

After all the entries have been submitted and the deadline has passed, the moderators will take a private vote to decide the first, second and third places. All entries will be ranked from 1 to 10, with the final score being the average of all votes. The winner of last month's contest will also be allowed to vote on this month's entries.

Once all the votes are tallied, the full list of results will be posted in an Awards Ceremony thread. The artist who receives the highest score will be awarded the Golden Guns, which they will keep next to their username for one month until the end of the next contest.

The highest-scoring non-mod participant will also be able to vote with the mods on the entries for the next contest.

The artists with the second and third highest scores will receive the Silver and Bronze Gun Awards, respectively, which will act in a similar manner.

All three gun winners can crosspost their comics to r/Polandball.

Good luck!