SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was contacted by the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in June about recommendations for its taxidermy collection, said Dan Coil of the ...

Editor’s note: For 2021, Jordan Rodriguez’s fishing column will appear twice a month in the Idaho Statesman and at IdahoStatesman.com. Fish taxidermy has fascinated me from an early age. Seeing a huge ...

I can’t help but imagine that most fishermen and women, at least once in their lives, has caught at least one fish that was special enough to consider getting it mounted. To some anglers the quest for ...

Two brothers from the tiny community of Carmen, just north of Salmon, have become world famous in taxidermy circles. After brothers Benjamin and Brandon Fahnholz first entered mounts in the Montana ...

Years ago, when Dalton Jeffers participated with his dad in Take Your Child to Work Day, he simply headed to a studio inside their house, filled with deer, geese and fish. At age 8, Dalton completed ...

If you walked into Paul Burczycki’s Algonac taxidermy shop in November, after peak hunting seasons, he said things might look “pretty gruesome.” By early March, there’s a lot more nearly completed ...

Taxidermy judge Fred Vanderburgh, from Molina, Colo., uses a flashlight to examine the eye of a mounted bison during the 2019 World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships in Springfield, Mo., on ...

Have you ever wanted a piece of Arizona wildlife on your wall? What about an animal skull or hide reminiscent of something in a hunter's cabin? The state's Game and Fish Department will sell ...

Most Minnesota taxidermists must be generalists, adept at big-game, fish and bird mounts. In 2014, there were 687 licensed taxidermists in Minnesota. Adam Zwick worked as a carpenter before he became ...

Animal taxidermy mounts at Willamette Fish Hatchery. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) is a close second to the Bonneville Fish Hatchery, 40 miles east of Portland, as the most visitor friendly hatchery ...