Ben Moyer: Fur war backfires on native wildlife in Pennsylvania

Unintended consequences. These often haunt human intentions. It’s likely outdoor people who value clean water, fish and wildlife, and public lands will be lamenting a lot of those in coming years, but this column is about an unintended – unimagined – consequence that’s already happening.
This one is on the people who, in their condemnation of trapping, and their persecution of anyone who has worn natural fur, quickened a native Pennsylvania wildlife species’ slide toward extinction, our own Allegheny woodrat.

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