Jenni Avins owns a red fox vest. It is simple, warm and, to many, hideously ugly for what it represents. To Ms Avins, though, it is not only thing of beauty, but the hard-earned product of hours of ...

Bart Atkins sews two pieces of mink fur on a specialized fur sewing machine. After that, the strips are sewn together to make a coat. Unlike fabric sewing machines, which hold and sew pieces ...

A group of women write haiku at the 2018 Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Winter Workshop. The Talkeetna Mountains are in the background. (Photo by Steve Meyer) The pile of furs in the corner of the ...

Donna Salyers was all set to buy a fur coat-on sale, no less-when the guilt set in. So Salyers, a Cincinnatian who writes a nationally syndicated sewing column and stars in her own series of ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was frozen-toe, mid-February, north-country cold, under a cloudless sky, sun glinting off fresh snow. We were ...

As stories about species going extinct continue to make headlines, global animal conservation efforts are not always a source ...

Falling prices, rising costs, and anti-fur sentiment jeopardize a centuries-old way of life. “Trapping is a huge part of my life,” says Nathan Kogiak, who runs a trapline outside Yellowknife in Canada ...

It was just by chance that Lisa Preto came up with the idea to sew real fur pompoms on Team Yukon's Arctic Winter Games hats. She was at an Alsek Renewable Resource Council meeting last year in Haines ...

Cut 2 pieces of gray fur to 10½" x 7½" (26.67 cm x 19.05 cm). Cut 1 piece of gray fur to 10½" x 3½" (26.67 cm x 8.89 cm). Cut 1 piece of gray fur to 4" x 3" (10.16 cm x 7.62 cm). Cut 2 pieces of gray ...

The Alaska Native Customary Art Show at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention is a feast for the senses: Shoppers exchange greetings in English and a half-dozen Alaska Native languages, ...