Sentence examples for declining fur from inspiring English sources

The conflict was a straightforward struggle over money (the last profits of the declining fur trade) and land (the Connecticut River Valley, which has the region's most productive soil).

And while she'd had to decline the fur (it smelled like naphthalene and had obviously belonged to his dead wife), she'd got something better.

As the demand for beaver fur declined and the various regions of the American West became depleted of beaver due to over trapping, American fur trading companies folded; however, individual mountain men continued to trap beaver in the region until about 1840.

This mutation allowed some mice to better camouflage themselves against the sand-coloured background of the dunes, and it is thought that over thousands of generations the frequency of the Agouti gene increased in this population while the frequency of the gene associated with darker fur declined.

Several shoppers looking for furs declined to speak on the record out of fear that animal rights activists would retaliate against them.

By the late 20th century there were thought to be some one million northern fur seals, but this number was declining.

Although bobcats have been hunted extensively by humans, both for sport and fur, their population has proven resilient though declining in some areas.

The fur trade declined in the 1860s, and Anglo settlement began in earnest in 1871, when railroads reached the Red River from St .Paul and Duluth, Minn.

As the Americans established outposts in the area and the fur trade declined, the dynamics changed dramatically.

Later, the coypu took over as a cheaper source of fur for felting and was farmed extensively in America and Europe; however, fashions changed, new materials became available and this area of the animal fur industry declined.

How exactly this related to raw-edged silks and primary-hued furs, she declined to say.