American Fur Felt in New Jersey has closed it's doors, and I understand (this is fur business hearsay) that Harmon is taking the company to Argentina where labor is much cheaper. And lots of inexpensive rabbit skins will be used in the production of felt.

I believe there's quite a few beaver in Argentina

But I doubt many get skinned.

Lets go down there for the summer(winter down there) BP,you speak spanish right?.you can be the interpreter, trapper, and skinner,and I will be your helper.
We will trap and skin up a pile of beaver.

Boy, that would be a dream come true! Could write up the experience and sell it to FF&G or some other Trapping mag.
…. Maybe get a sponsorship to pay the tickets

Los atrapas las despellejo. That's all the Spanish you need to know Boco. I've seen beaver from Tierra Del Fuego years ago, really nice fur, but the put up would make you two beaver connoisseur's throw up. About the same latitude in the south as Alaska is in the north.

Fur trapping for fur is illegal as is fur garment industry.

Only ADC & nuisance trapping is allowed but
fur & castor cannot be used commercially.

Sorry BOCO, NO DICE !!!

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No wonder they got a problem there-the ejits imported the beaver to create a fur industry then banned the fur industry,lol.
Must be brain dead down there.

Nutria is the big fur down there, the jackets are light so women can wear them at night is what ive heard. Need to start making felt out of nutria hides, lol.

Ohh man, magazine? Screw that, they’d have to send a film crew with you guys. Some kinda new series. “Peeler & Boco, Stretchin Beaver Since 69’ “ You’ll beat Yellowstone, and people will be asking if there’ll be a season 9. Think of the spin offs!

My experience in Latin America is invite the local officials out on the town a few times and you become their compadre. Then you can do whatever you want. Besides, if there’s an issue in Argentina we’ll head over the cordillera and trap Chile. “Ahi si puedes cazar y pelar todos los castores que quieras.”

We can bring walleyed along as camp cook.

Btw, if you google up beaver and Tierra de Fuego or Patagonia it seems like you can commercially harvest them. There’s been a change of heart.

That's good. you just have to have a big enough problem to change an idiots mind. WE ARE working on that here in Colorado, but there's just to many of them in Denver and Boulder.

But shipping beaver pelts is always a deal breaker. Boco, how long it take us to fill a shipping container full?

I thought the felt guy set up shop there-just drop off the hides once a week and hit the Honkey tonk or whatever they call it that far south.

About 1500 miles from the beaver sloughs to Buenos Aires.

Google this, "Beavers in Southern Patagonia" Wikipedia calls the beaver problem there the largest landscape alteration in subantarctic forests since the last ice age. Pretty interesting! Read further and there are the equivalent of millions of USD in grants for eradication programs. Average monthly rent for a furnished accommodation in an expensive area is $283 USD a month, average cost of dining in a good restaurant is $5.12 USD. According to "Expatistan".

Yeah, I read that too.

What are you waiting for?