From left, eighth-grade students Tanner Heichel, Chance Stahlberg, Leif Simonson and Elijah Desch remove membrane and fat from an elk hide as part of the tanning and curing process in teacher Kris Schreiner’s class at Kalispell Middle School on Wednesday, Nov. 20. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
November 23, 2019
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November 23, 2019 4 a.m.
Kalispell Middle School students learn how to tan hides
Out in the courtyard of Kalispell Middle School on Wednesday was an unusual sight — deer and elk hides stretched tautly with rope on wooden frames lying fur side down on tarps.