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Bison diorama in 2015 after extensive treatments, American Museum of Natural History. The conservation of taxidermy is the ongoing maintenance and preservation of zoological specimens that have been mounted or stuffed for display and study. Taxidermy specimens contain a variety of organic materials, such as fur, bone, feathers, skin, and wood ...
May 1986. The Little Sandy National Wildlife Refuge is National Wildlife Refuge of 3,802 acres [1] in Wood County, Texas. [2] Unlike most National Wildlife Refuges maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the public is not allowed access to the refuge. [3] The land is privately owned, but protected by a conservation easement.
Taxidermy. Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal 's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state.
The Guadalupe bass (Micropterus treculii) is a rare species of fish endemic to the U.S. state of Texas, [2] where it also is the official state fish. It is restricted to creeks and rivers (including the Guadalupe River, hence the name Guadalupe bass), and is listed as near threatened. [1] Today, most fly fishermen and anglers practice catch-and ...
The city of Houston says it has an innovative new program that can recycle any type of plastic, calling it a model for the nation, but environmental groups say the results leave much to be desired ...
An angler broke a Lone Star State record by catching a 71-pound fish in an infamous Texas lake earlier this summer.. The catch, which was a smallmouth buffalo, was announced on Friday. The 71 ...
F.I.S.H. / 29.43972°N 98.48167°W / 29.43972; -98.48167. F.I.S.H. is an outdoor 2009 sculpture depicting a school of fish by Donald Lipski, installed underneath the 1-35 overpass near Camden Street in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The installation features 25 7-foot (2.1 m) fiberglass resin sculptures of long-eared sunfish, each ...
The Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis), [4] formerly Bufo houstonensis, is an endangered species of amphibian that is endemic to Texas in the United States. [5][6] This toad was discovered in the late 1940s and named in 1953. It was among the first amphibians added to the United States List of Endangered Native Fish and Wildlife [3] and is ...