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Salem man wants to sell animal trophies; state says no – Statesman Journal

There are no black hats in this column.On one hand, it’s fairly easy to understand the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s position.Without rules governing the sale, purchase or exchange of wildlife parts, too many poaching-prone individuals would needlessly and illegally kill furry and feathered critters just to sell their parts.On the other hand, there […]

Colorado Parks and Wildlife ends search for wolf attacking livestock in Rio Blanco County – AspenTimes.com

NewsNews | Aug 26, 2025 alongwell@postindependent.comColorado Parks and Wildlife is ending its search for an uncollared wolf attacking livestock in Rio Blanco County after an unsuccessful attempt at killing the animal, according to a news release sent by the agency on Tuesday.The state wildlife agency partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services to […]

As anti-fur sentiment grows, California’s oldest trappers are calling it quits – Los Angeles Times

After a lifetime spent trapping animals in California’s western Sierra Nevada, Tim Wion traveled to Oregon recently to make one big, final sale at the annual Klamath Falls fur auction.Unlike his fellow woodsmen, however, Wion wasn’t hawking the luxuriant pelts of wolves, bobcats, otters, coyotes, foxes and muskrat. Instead, the 75-year-old was selling off the […]

Rossen Reports: Some 'faux fur' sold in stores comes from real animals – TODAY.com

Shop TODAY Hair Awards: 50 Winners for Every Hair Type and Routine TODAYStart TODAYSteals & Deals, Boxes & Last Chance MarketJeff Rossen and Charlie McLravyAccording to a May 2014 Gallup poll, nearly 100 million Americans think buying and wearing fur is “morally wrong.”Some of the nation’s biggest retailers, including Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom Rack, Belk, Jacadi […]

Julia O'Malley: A city that knows its furs, and wears them to the grocery store – Anchorage Daily News

I’ll tell you what I thought when I saw a guy at the grocery store in a full-length fox-fur coat the other day. I thought: “Anchorage, Alaska, you are awesome.” And then I exercised restraint by not taking a photograph of him and posting it on social media.Maybe I should have posted, though, because a […]

Exotic, Extinct, and On Display: Robert Clark’s Take on Taxidermy – National Geographic

For photographer Rob Clark, the fascination with taxidermy started with a fright. “There was a big polar bear in my hometown, in Hays, Kansas,” he says during a phone call last August. “They kind of hid it behind a door and I’d always forget it was there, and you’d come around the corner, and it […]