Learn how the beaver helped build Oregon from territorial days to statehood and became its official state mammal.

"For such simple garments, hats have had a devastating impact on wildlife throughout their long history... Made of wild-caught mammal furs, decorated with feathers or whole stuffed birds, historically ...

In The New York Times in 1917, a year in which it was forecast that “the civilized world of women will wear more fur than ever before,” a reporter asked a pelt importer what his furs were made of.