Bucky Flowers has several black bear hides in his Naples shop that will be processed and turned into rugs over the next few weeks.
Owner of Skins and Scales Taxidermy off Kirkwood Avenue, Flowers has been processing hides for 49 years, handling everything from deer to turkey and now, Florida black bears.
Flowers processes several black bears each year, but most of those hides come from Canada and Alaska, he says…