In addition to doing taxidermy work,Stephanie enjoys fur trapping for animals like fox,raccoon,muskrat,beaver, and mink.Her favorite animals to mount are furbearers,including bobcat,lynx, coyote,wolf,ect.

Still owned and operated by Stephanie,Brush Wolf is a new location,but still the same quality and detailing that Deer Woman Taxidermy was known for. The name "brush wolf" refers to the large wolf like coyotes found in the northeast and east and in the upper midwest ( northern Michigan for example). Basically,the  coyote is Stephanie's favorite animal to mount.

With Brush Wolf Taxidermy, you get a lifelike mount with detailing,not just a mount.Deer  and other gameheads with a turned pose get the eyes with the whites showing.Lifesize bears,wolves and other large game also get the special eyes. All mounts have detailed nostrils. Many open mouth mounts use competition  quality jawsets.Anatomy is checked and rechecked,using photos of live animals,as well as death mask casts,for reference. Artificial noses,cast from fresh originals, are used in bear and furbearer mounts, since the real noses in these animals tend to shrink alot  when drying. An artificial nose looks like the live animals nose,not some old dead dried up nose.

All mammal hides are fully tanned,many commerically tanned ( all large gamehead and large  full mount skins are commercially tanned),the smaller game skins are shop tanned with a full tanning process. All small game such as weasels,small juvenile animals such as  a fox pup( with permit) and red squirrels are freeze dried in Stephanie's personal freeze dry machine. In addition,deer feet for gunracks, velvet antlers,and turkey heads are also freeze dried. Freeze drying offers a long lasting mount that retains all the natural features.

Bird and reptile mounts:

Stephanie accepts these animals in for mounting. As with mammal mounts, detailing is important with these as well. Both are preserved differently from mammal skins though,but the best methods are used on these. Freeze drying is often employed on reptiles,always with the smaller specimens,and a combination of conventional mounting and freeze drying used on medium sized reptiles.A large reptile such as a large alligator is mounted with a specially tanned hide.

Turkey mounts use the real head, freeze dried to preserve the skin and all the small feathers and hairs.

African and exotic animals:

Brush Wolf Taxidermy accepts these in for mounting. Stephanie does have experience doing difficult African specimens. Many times in Africa, skins are not properly handled by the skinners and those who finish the processing. They may be incorrectly prepped and are often stuck in crates as dry salted hides, for 6 months in a  hot wharehouse. Bugs get into the hides and due to the bad prepping, hair loss occurs during tanning where bugs did not do damage. Hides often have many cuts and holes in them and also do not always tan well either, giving the hide little to no stretch when it is time to mount it. Some African skins are not even mountable. Those that are, need repair work, sometimes a little,sometimes alot. Prices for African work are higher than those for North American  animals of similar size ,due to the fact that repair is always needed,and due to the fact that some African species do not have many forms available for them and forms must be altered in size to fit skins. If an African skin comes in that needs much repair but is still workable and can be made to look good in the end product, price will be higher than the quoted price list price. Yes,sometimes horns also need repairs,and the price will be adjusted according to the amount of extra repair needed.