From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Michigan Taxidermist Looses Thousands In Damage

June 23, 2009

The owners of Burton Taxidermy in Cheboygan spent the day cleaning out freezers full of animal hides after police say someone disabled the power supply to the business.
Jim and Dawn Burton had been out of town for the past three weeks and noticed the power outage when they returned home this morning.
Police believe someone ripped [...]

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Alabama Taxidermy Association

June 19, 2009

The Alabama Taxidermy Association will hold its annual meeting on June 19-20, 2009 at the Jack Warner Activity Center at Demopolis High School.
Formed in the 1970s, the ATA is comprised of 56 members who meet annually to hold competitions and seminars.
“Taxidermists from surrounding states usually attend the meeting as well,” said Dee Daniel, co-owner of [...]

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Century-Old Taxidermy Yields Clues to Climate Future

June 15, 2009

A 100-year-old collection of animal specimens from California becomes a valuable resource for climate-change research. Take a video tour of the collection, and learn how scientists at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology compare how the state’s animals are doing today to how they were faring a century ago.
Read The Rest Of Century-Old Taxidermy [...]

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Nebraska Taxidermy Association

June 11, 2009

The 25th annual Nebraska State Taxidermists Association Competition and Convention will be held at the Howard Johnson Riverside Inn.
The show is for anyone interested in the art of taxidermy. There are seminars all three days and lots of interaction with other taxidermists and vendors.
The Nebraska State Taxidermists Association is a collection of taxidermists dedicated to [...]

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Who Was Edwin Carter ?

June 9, 2009

Edwin Carter came to Colorado in the 1860s — as did hundreds of others — drawn by the lure of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. His initial visit to Breckenridge focused on his attempts at placer (hydraulic) mining, but he left to try his luck at other active mining areas in Breckenridge.
When he returned to [...]

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Hobby Taxidermist Turns To Big-Time Success

June 8, 2009

Matt Zimmerman got into taxidermy in the mid 1990s for simple reasons.
He wanted to mount trophy deer, bears, turkeys and other animals taken by himself and members of his family.
Never did he intend his hobby to take him away from his dad’s business — Zimmerman’s Electrical and Plumbing in Ephrata.
But, due to ever-increasing demands for [...]

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Taxidermy Imports Seized

June 8, 2009

Officers for Ruzial Ltd, the corporate entity that owned the 150ft yacht Mystère, pleaded guilty to attempting to import 29 wildlife items into the US without a permit. Many of the items included species protected under US and international law, IBI reports.
US Customs officials in late 2007 discovered what amounted to a big-game hunter’s collection [...]

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Judge Rules On Virginia Taxidermy Case

June 8, 2009

Selling the stuffed black bear was ok with a Virginia judge. But the “road kill” deer antlers sold on eBay was a big no-no.
That’s how a Virginia judge ruled Thursday in the case against Jon Goble, 46, of Churchville, Virginia who was indicted last year after he sold a mounted black bear to an undercover [...]

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US Government Sells Off Taxidermy Collection

June 5, 2009

They aren’t advertised as the spoils of a multimillion-dollar swindle, but the exotic, glass-eyed animals inside a remote Wyoming taxidermy shop are nevertheless hooking customers.
And the proceeds will go to the bilked victims of admitted Ponzi-scheme artist Shawn Merriman of Aurora, who is under criminal investigation and faces civil securities-fraud charges.
More than 100 wildlife trophies [...]

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