Buddy sent me a picture of one of the beaver that he put up. I wonder if it would be worth trying to sell it verse shipping it.

Pretty beaver. Might try the craft trade.

Back in the fur boom, the color on those pelts would be an extra C (extra pale). They brought a premium price in the auction room. Lots of the extra C came from Montana.

Is it really as blonde as it appears? I like how you claim to have a "buddy" too.

Beautiful Fur

Ha ha 160, I do have at least one friend, maybe.

Looks like most of the beaver I trap in my area yep they were worth big money in the 80s just another beaver now.

That's the first beaver in this area I have seen that white. I have seen many in my days.

Get out towards the Red River Valley you will see more beaver of that color or even paler. That one has a bit of red down the center.

A good mix of white , brown and red. Very unique.

I've never seen a beaver that light in person. I would keep it. I think the more common, solid black ones are cool too.

Keith

That would look good tanned and hooped. Pretty cool.

What a cool and beautiful beaver

Lots of pales in this area.

That's a pretty beaver. I had one that was auburn in color. That year black was the color that brought the biggest bucks. Light brown not so much. So, I kept the auburn hide and it hangs on my wall.

We get a fair number of paler beaver in ND. They seem to run in some areas more then others.

Yep, when I brought some dark Northern MN beaver over to your Bismark sale a few years back folks were looking at them like they were from a different planet.

The further west one goes the more common pale beaver are .

Nothing uncommon about a pale beaver. I've caught more pales than blacks according to nafa and fha graders

Good looking critter.
Seems like a lot of our river beaver here are pale and extra pale.

Nice and silky looking. Wherever alkaline soils reign beaver are paler. Acidic soils almost always have darker beaver.

I agree. Lots of clay in the river banks where we catch the pale ones. Mud and sand banks seem to have darker and red colored ones.