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National Conservation Training Center archives feature extensive collection of confiscated treasures
SHEPHERDSTOWN — A tiger lunged, with its fangs bared, at passersby on Jan. 14, as National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) historian Mark Madison led a tour of the center’s archives. The tiger was one of many endangered species that had been taxidermized and, eventually, confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and placed in its archives at the NCTC. “NCTC opened in 1997,” Madison said. “Currently, we have about half-a-million objects in our archive! We have four different storage areas for our archive.” Due to the extensive size of the archive, tours of it ...
