CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Duck hunters in Missouri will have to wait a few more months to hit the blinds, but anyone is welcome to attend the Cape Nature Center’s duck decoy carving workshop in ...

Gary Lipham has carved just enough wooden duck decoys to understand how much skill and creativity the craft demands. “I wanted to have an appreciation for carving, so I carved a little bit,” said ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber that, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber which, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

EDINA, Minn. -- Doug Lodermeier was bursting with stories about Minnesota duck-decoy carvers. We were in Lodermeier's basement office in early December, thumbing through a computer copy of his new ...

MIDDLE RIVER, Minn.-Joel Huener says he's always been "kind of a rabid do-it-yourselfer," a trait that also rubbed off on his hunting and fishing. "I tie flies, I make rods and I load my own ammo," ...

Leonard Rousseau of Kneeland recently won the World Championship title in the decorative decoy pairs division at this year’s 48th annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving and Art Festival in ...

Once seen as mere hunting tools, duck decoys have waddled their way into the world of collecting hobbies. It's easy to see why: These handcrafted works of art are painted with intricate details and ...

Duck hunters are cut from a rare cloth. The sport is expensive and time consuming, pushing marriages and work to their brink, and the birds we pursue move best in the very conditions that keep most ...

MOUNT VERNON — Marty Hanson began carving decoys when he was 10 years old. Some 41 years later, the Hayward, Minnesota, resident is a world-class carver whose decoys are highly sought by collectors ...