FALL ISSUE #135, BILL NEUMAN, COVER ARTIST: The Carl E. Akeley Award, selected as the best entry that represents taxidermy as a valid form of wildlife art, is one of the top awards given at the World Taxidermy Championships®. This award was introduced at the first World Taxidermy Championships® in 1983. The list of past winners reads like a Who’s-Who in taxidermy. The two bounding ibexes were high-scoring Master Division entries by Bill Neuman from Bismarck, ND, who is also a member of the award-winning staff at Dakota Taxidermy. Bill is also writing a series of articles starting in this issue. See this issue’s Gallery of Wildlife Art featuring the winners of the Akeley and Master of Masters Awards.

In This Issue  

• The Breakthrough Gallery: 2019 World Show Akeley and Master of Master Winners
• The Taxidermy Hall of Fame: 2019 Inductees, by Ken Edwards
• Customizing Leg Rods, by Bill Neuman
• The Services of Skull Unlimited, by Lanaya Kimbrough
• DIY Hair-On Tanning, by Dale Knobloch
• Gene Smith World-Class Whitetail, Part 4, by Larry Blomquist
• The Value of Belonging to a State Association, by John Jennings
• 2019 National Taxidermists Association: All Entries Pictured
• Waterfowl Reference Study, Part 2: Teals, by Larry Blomquist 

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