HYATT REGENCY, PUERTO Rico; BonAventure Hotel, Florida; Botanical Gardens, Texas; San Antonio Zoo, Texas; Opryland Hotel, Tennessee; Delbridge Museum of Natural History, South Dakota; Minnesota Zoological Gardens, Minnesota; Richard Childress’ home (NASCAR); Tom Bolack Museum (Safari Club member and past governor of New Mexico). These are all high ticket influential resorts and fashionable hot spots where the beautiful people play, lie back, and relax… places that most of us just dream of visiting someday, maybe when the kids are grown, or when we hit it big in the lottery... those $1,000- or $2,000-a-night resorts that Martina Navratilova uses to regenerate.

What have all of these places have to do with the taxidermy industry? They are all places that use the beauty of artificial trees, rocks, waterfalls, plants, or snowscapes to enhance or stimulate the senses of their inhabitants. Humans need these stimuli to escape the everyday humdrum of the workplace. We go back to nature to rejuvenate. In the 21st century, nature and habitat will not only be used by the elite and the rich and famous, but also by average homeowners and hunters.

...Continued in the Summer 2004 Issue of Breakthrough.

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