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In the 2018-2019 trapping season, licensed trappers caught more than 2.7 million furbearing animals — a category that includes coyotes, beavers, raccoons, mink, and wolves.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022

In the 19th century, furriers killed off many of the furbearing animals and, in so doing, their trade as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

If this is true, it is an indication of the immense supply of furbearing animals, especially beaver, available at that time.

From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Fisher, Sydney George

Comrades of the trap line, come down to camp and let us talk over this question of the fast disappearance of the furbearing animals.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

One is not likely to mistake the track of the bear, as it is the largest of the furbearing animals.

From Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture by Kreps, Elmer Harry