If you tag a deer this fall, put its skin to good use. Here’s how to tan a hide or preserve it for professional tanning.

19 students showed up at Falls Radiator on U.S. Highway 59 in Thief River Falls to help 40 chapter volunteers scrape and salt 2,000 hides and stack them on pallets for eventual sale to fur buyers.

They stacked 172 hides on pallets Tuesday and loaded them onto a trailer. Koens then delivered their first haul of the season Wednesday to the Cedar Rapids Elks Lodge 251, where the hides will remain ...