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Two Cornell students skin bear in dorm kitchen, school says – USA Today

Two Cornell students hunted and skinned a 120-pound bear inside a residence hall kitchen over the weekend, university personnel said.Two Cornell University undergraduate students with valid New York State hunting licenses lawfully killed a bear over the weekend. The students brought the animal into a residence hall, where they processed it on Saturday, Sept. 6, […]

Petition Seeks Halt to Sales of Fur From Colorado’s Wildlife – Center for Biological Diversity

For Immediate Release, June 16, 2025 Contact:Samantha Miller, (970) 531-6720, [email protected]Petition Seeks Halt to Sales of Fur From Colorado’s WildlifeDENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal rulemaking petition urging Colorado Parks and Wildlife to prohibit the commercial sale of furs taken from the state’s wildlife.In contrast to the protections given to the […]

Alaska for $7 million: Why and how Russia sold its largest overseas peninsula – english.nv.ua

Painting by Emanuel Leutze *Signing of the Treaty on the Sale of Alaska, March 30, 1867*. Left to right: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Vladimir Bodisko, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner, Frederick Seward, 1868. (Photo: Akhistorycourse) More than 150 years ago, the Russian Empire sold Alaska out of fear it might lose […]

Tracing Alaska’s Russian Heritage – smithsonianmag.com

SectionsMore from Smithsonian magazineOur PartnersSubscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote.Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Alaska Fen Montaigne Every summer a conga line of tourists in campers and RVs chugs the 220 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, to the town of Homer, a picturesque fishing port with panoramic views of Kachemak Bay. About three-quarters of […]

Nunavut government will go online to sell polar bear hides at cut rate to residents – Nunatsiaq News

News  Sep 15, 2021 – 9:30 am EDTHides that couldn’t sell at auction because of low demand will go for $200 to $800 Polar bear hides will go for $200 to $800 on a new website being launched by the Government of Nunavut on Sept. 21. (File Photo)By Mélanie RitchotNunavummiut will be able to bid on […]

Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley Take Alaska, One Fur Hat at a Time – Bravo

Stream The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 20 premiere on Peacock now!  Get new exclusives and perks.Go inside the #RHOC couple’s trip north.Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley have left sunny Orange County behind to take in the sights of Alaska. The couple headed visited the state from which Slade hails — and they definitely […]

Carrie Bradshaw’s taxidermy wedding bird hat is on sale for $40,000 – hellomagazine.com

Carrie Bradshaw's fashion-forward sense of style in Sex And The City became legendary, and her wedding outfit in the 2008 SATC movie was no exception. The piece that truly stole the show was her iconic ‘something blue’ in the form of a vintage bird hat worn atop her veil, “The final touch was a taxidermied blue […]

Who let the wolves in? Genetic record for domestic dogs pushed back by 5,000 years – Nature

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Fur flies as Penney restocks dog-fur coats – NBC News

news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeJ.C. Penney Co. removed some fur-trimmed coats from its racks around Christmas after animal-rights activists objected that the fur came from wild dogs in China.Last week, the department-store company put the coats back on the racks — but only after directing employees to use marker pens to […]