[Jewelry making - Article 00571] - Re: [Orchid] Antler-horn -ivory and teeth

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>     The Boy Scouts of America are allowed to gather up the sheds
>     legally. What they do with them all, I don't know. 

    I spent the Christmas holidays in Jackson Hole Wyoming, where there
    is a large elk preserve, where the animals congregate during the
    winter, and are supplied with food, and from which they then move
    back up into their mountain ranges in the spring.  Tours get run into
    the preserve via horse drawn wagons, a popular tourist trip, and
    since amonst our group were my brothers two young toddlers, and a
    couple others who weren't on the slopes skiing,  we took this trip.
    One of the comments was about the annual collection of the antlers by
    the scouts, and apparently at least here, the antlers collected are
    not kept by the scouts, but are then auctioned off each spring, with
    the proceeds used to help support the costs of running the preserve,
    and other conservation efforts in the area. I have no idea, of
    course, if the same holds true in other locations. 

Peter


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