Northern Fur Conservation Area Agreement

This ten year agreement, jointly funded by the provincial and federal governments, allowed the province to create a Fur Advisory Committee that would advise the government on matters of conservation on trapping above the fifty-third parallel, which was divided into five ‘fur blocks.’ These regions were allotted to five-member trappers councils who were responsible for overseeing the conservation endeavors. Trapping was restricted to those who had lived in the north for at least a year (to shut out seasonal trappers from the south) and who had no other major source of income outside of trapping.