Sarah Palin's unexpected burst onto the national scene has piqued sudden interest in Alaska, but few people know that Northern California and the 49th state have been tied together in hundreds of ...

arts entertainment Travel . Annual fur festival draws tourists to Alaska's frozen frontier Since 1935, the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous -- locals simply call it Rondy -- has brightened the long, dark ...

Alaska is one of the few places with a legal sea otter fur trade. The species is listed as endangered in some areas, but in Southeast Alaska they’re booming.

Description. For over 200 years, the fur trade brought settlers into the Alaskan territory. In her book, The Fur Farms of Alaska, Sarah Isto shared the history of the fur industry in Alaska from ...

The committee of the Chamber of Commerce on the Alaska Fur Trade, after a thorough investigation of the subject, reported in favor of the abolition of all restrictions not necessary to protect the ...

For decades, fur merchants would trade cash for full pelts, buying stacks of them at a time from Alaska Native hunters. Then in 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act put an end to that.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A St. Paul Island man who co-signed an agreement to help conserve northern fur seals pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally selling fur seal parts, specifically seal penises, to ...

An Alaska Native said his otter fur handicrafts are for sale again on Etsy.com after the website briefly took them down to align with a new policy targeting the illegal trade of ivory and items ...

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With February just over, my thoughts wandered back almost three decades to February 1984 and the Fur Rendezvous held annually in Anchorage, Alaska. Joy and I had made the trip ...

But rather than leave, the apex predators shifted their diet to a new food source: sea otters, which were reintroduced to Alaska after being nearly wiped out in the fur trade. Biologists at the ...