Created no earlier than 1918. Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society The North American fur trade knocked on the door of Mni Sota Makoce (Dakota homelands, present-day Minnesota ...

Four centuries of fur-trade trapping nearly wiped beavers off the North American map. Now they're back, big time, and we're discovering that sharing the landscape with such tenacious ecosystem ...

North American fur is ... John Sewell says a coyote fur that would net $7 at auction a decade ago would sell for $50 today. "That's what they want for the trim trade," he says.