Beaver pelts: 1 trapper, 1 post, 1 company, 1 year

Beaver pelts: 1 trapper, 1 post, 1 company, 1 year

After I recently wrote a blog post about Fun Facts about Beavers, I got to wondering: 1. How many pelts did a single Native trapper bring in? 2. How many packs of pelts did the winterers at a fur post bring to the rendezvous? 3.What was the yearly take for the fur...
Don’t leave it to the beavers

Don’t leave it to the beavers

“What’s that terrible odor?” we asked ourselves while biking past the nearby Sauk River. We gingerly investigated: a roadkill beaver. Encrusted in flies, this one had died a day or more earlier. Is it ironic that this is the first almost-live beaver...

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