In this photo taken Friday, March 16, 2018, Benjamin Lin holds up a fur coat at the B.B. Hawk showroom in San Francisco. Fur trapping would be banned in California if the Legislature passes Assembly ...

California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the American West to international ...

“When fur is used in a slow-fashion way, it is a relatively sustainable resource,” Vogue explains. The fashion publication explained that furriers, individuals who specialize in clothing derived from ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the ...

California has become the first state to ban commercial fur trapping.Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he's signed a bill by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez into law. Gonzalez says ...

Trappers meet their quarry at nature’s elemental level during the bleakest months of the year. The winter growth of luxuriant fur, provoked by an evolutionary response to a weather cycle that long ...

SACRAMENTO – California has enacted a new ban on fur trapping for animal pelts, making it the first state to outlaw a centuries-old livelihood that was intertwined with the rise of the Western ...

Shawn Coston called it his “end of the line” photo. “Every trapper takes one,” he said. For Coston, who lives in Stamford, N.Y. in Delaware County, the 2018-19 New York trapping season was his best ...

The rise in fur prices is the biggest cause of trapping's rise in popularity in Minnesota. Pelts from muskrats - the state's most commonly trapped fur bearer - used to sell for $3 to $5 apiece. But in ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) — California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the American West ...

SACRAMENTO, California, September 5, 2019 (ENS) – In a victory for wildlife, California has become the first U.S. state to outlaw fur trapping. The Wildlife Protection Act of 2019 was signed into law ...