It’s gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin. Some hunters are not only thinking harvesting the meat, but the hides too. Tanning is top of mind, all the time, for a women-owned business in rural ...

Tanning hides and furs is a valuable skill to learn, not just for the hunter or trapper, but for anyone looking for a way to responsibly put to use the hides normally discarded. Even for those who may ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

For people who may not be familiar with tanning, the word itself may bring thoughts of the Native Americans with beautiful buckskin clothes, or old mountain trappers of days gone by. However, tanning ...

In this special Hide Tanning Mini Series from Lakeland PBS's Common Ground, Nate Johnson makes his own durable leather clothing from animal hides. Nate Johnson prepares these two hides, a beaver and a ...

UNION — Few tasks give Michelle Steevens of Union a greater feeling of joy and satisfaction than transforming animal hides into soft, pliable leather products people can use. “It is a labor of love. I ...

Eighth-grade teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates removing membrane and fat from an elk hide as part of the tanning and curing process in his class at Kalispell Middle School on Nov. 20. (Casey Kreider ...

Jana Cook poses for a portrait with armfuls of mountain lion pelts at The Wildlife Gallery in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Cook sorts finished hides and boxes them up to be shipped back to taxidermists.