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Oregon’s mink: the hidden hunter with a fur-trade past
Oregon’s mink: the hidden hunter with a fur-trade past
Oregon’s mink: the hidden hunter with a fur-trade past

Published on: 02/20/2026

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Photographer Kyle Tansley captured this American mink in Burlington, Vermont, on May 6, 2020, as she hauled her kits from one den to another. When Tansley arrived, he was told she’d already moved two babies — and he watched her carry at least two more. He isn’t sure what triggered the relocation, but the den was near a spot where fishermen regularly sit, and he suspects something — people or another animal — disturbed it.American mink (Neovison vison / Mustela vison), a mustelid native to North America in hollow tree trunk on river bank in 2012.18-year-old Michael Hew inspects his minks at his farm on July 9th, 1958.An American mink, a mustelid native to North America, on frozen river bank in winter.While wearing a mink coat, Miss Ohio, Robin Meade, tours the Mohoric Mink Farm in 1992.American mink, a mustelid native to North America on a river bank in 2012.An adult mink bares his claws, ready to swipe at the photographer in 1981. The animal's valuable fur was auctioned in New York in 1982.A guest attending the Forza Collective show during Copenhagen Fashion Week AW26 is seen wearing a long, light-brown mink fur coat on Jan. 27, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark.Cages extend in long rows along the sides of shed at Montano's Mink Farm in Oregon in 1981. Montano's farm, one of about 50 in Oregon, produces three colors of mink.In 1984, thick leather gloves worn by Ernie Montano nearly obscure a small, squirming, snarling mink. Montano, who had about 8,000 mink at his Forest Grove farm, described the weasel-like critters as “interesting, but very nasty.” TAn American mink, a mustelid, native to North America on river bank.Two American minks, mustelids native to North America, meeting on river bank in 2012.A mink farm in Estonia in 1975.A Sapphire mink displays his light gray fur from behind the bars of his cage at the Mohoric mink farm.

When people picture a mink, they often jump straight to fur — big, elaborate coats like Cruella de Vil’s in Disney’s animated 101 Dalmatians. They’re not wrong: the fur trade helped shape early Oregon history, and mink fur is still part of the story here today.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/02/mink-in-oregon-an-industry-fades-the-wild-mink-stays.html

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