A Coshocton firefighter by profession, Conkle was drawn to taxidermy through his appreciation for the outdoors and his attention to detail. He specializes exclusively in deer head mounts, saying deer ...

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 ...

Our state laws are a shambles, according to the one man who should know, Dr. Tom French, the assistant director of our state's Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program. Regulations on the sale ...

Tom Dvorak can’t bear to throw away his late father’s prized possessions: the mounted heads of a white-tailed deer taken in Illinois and a mule deer bagged in the wilds of Wyoming. Dvorak remembers ...

David Clifton takes pride in his work and he’s looking to pass on the passion for turning out top-notch taxidermy to others. Clifton, 54, is a full-time taxidermist from Rusk. In mid-September, he ...

Taxidermy has come a long way since people first started preserving animal carcasses for observation, memoir and art. The field of alternative taxidermy—creating nontraditional mounts—has become so ...