Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fur trade and the environment
- Atlantic
- cutting of forests for timber trade
- slash and burn agriculture
- deforestation
- wildfires killed people and animals
- mass killing of animals
- moose virtually disappeared from NB
- skin taken, carcass left to rot
- no care for season or gender
- conservation plans not enforced
- west
- near extinction of buffalo
- mass killings
- hides
- food for railway workers
- railway running across habitat
- over trapping of Beaver to prevent Americans from moving North
- attempt to exterminate wolf
- kill or chase away buffalo
- possibly killing cattle
- competition for fur bearing animals
- trapping year round and ignoring birth cycles
- trappers ignoring conservation plans
- Policies of consevation
- laws created to protect moose, grouse and black duck in Atlantic
- learning of demographic cycles then tried to match with market
- reprimanding districts that over trapped
- trapping according to birth cycles