Evan Zocco has been mapping beaver dens in Connecticut since he was an undergrad. He’s now a doctoral candidate and he’s still mapping beaver dens, but his methods have gotten more sophisticated. Back ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

Thick beaver pelts were quite the catch in the 19th century, and the buck-toothed rodents of the Cuyahoga River Valley suffered because of it. Scientists believe the beaver was trapped to local ...

Discover the history of the Red River oxcarts and the important role the Métis had in economic development of the early trade routes across Minnesota.