God, Don Huber of Folsom likes to say, created every winged fowl. The best we can do is try to duplicate them. Huber has been doing just that for almost 40 years now, carving colorfully realistic ...

Everyone dreams of making a living doing something they absolutely love. For Jeff Duxbury, it’s his life and has been for the better part of forty years. He’s the owner of Dux’ Dekes Decoy Company in ...

VAIL, Colorado –During the Ward Brothers decoy carving world championship, contestants are given a year to carve one duck decoy out of wood. Joe Jonas –who’s at work in the Vail Valley until Sunday ...

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 ...

DRY PRONG - There’s a lot of wood carving talent gathered around this table at New Prospect Baptist Church. And just as much witty banter as there are wood chips. “Each individual here has their own ...

SPALDING — The three tiny, feathery curls on the miniature mallard duck’s tail are proof Spalding resident Joe Jonas uses a light-as-a-feather touch with a heated razor blade as he carves and shapes ...

It’s pretty calm and quiet around Russ Dedekind’s West Lawn home, even though he and his brother share it with hundreds of wooden ducks in various stages of becoming decoys. They must be pretty good ...

Hand-crafted wooden duck decoys, with their intricate carvings and painted designs, attract more than just unsuspecting ducks that mistake them for the real thing and end up getting bagged by hunters.

The increasingly rare art of duck decoy carving is celebrated at The Louisiana Wildfowl Festival this weekend in Mandeville (Photo by Liz Artists from across the country, as well as England and Canada ...

They look real, take dozens of hours to craft and will cost you if one is destined for your mantle. More than 400 people took in the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show over the weekend in Vancouver. It was ...

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,” ...

DELEON SPRINGS — While cardinals called from the trees above DeLeon Springs on Saturday, assorted cardinals, wood ducks and other birds perched along a row of tabletops alongside the springs, ...