on a scale that makes the fur industry a sideshow. People in the fur trade like to dwell on the implied hypocrisy. “I just read that Americans consumed 1.3 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves in a dazzling variety of textures and hues. But ...

To trace the origins of the conflict, one would have to go all the way back to the height of the fur trade in the North Country. The land that would one day become Minnesota abounded with fur ...