Sentences with phrase «otter pelts»
European demand for otter pelts decimated the animal population in that area and pushed Kyuquot and Checleseht peoples out of their wintering villages.
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Keep following the rugged coast, with stops at historic Fort Ross (a former outpost for Russian hunters searching for sea otter pelts) and Jenner, the village at the mouth of the Russian River.
In 1787, Charles William Barkley, arrived in the sound that would one day bare his name, looking for sea otter pelts.
When they reached the shore of Kamchatka Russia, they brought with them word of the expedition and sea otter pelts.
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Hunted to extinction for their pelts from the 1790's to the early 1900's, the sea otter population was reintroduced in the 1970's and are now a constant regardless of the weather.
For 200 years, explorers and traders visited the islands where they hunted otters, seals, and sea lions for their pelts and oil, greatly increasing the exploitation of the marine resources and introducing diseases that decimated the native populations.