Fur trade and the environment

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

Resource summary

	Created by tdhein over 10 years ago