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There were also furbearing animals—wolverines, lynx, weasels, martins, muskrat, otter, mink, beaver—animals which were the livelihood, to greater or lesser degrees, of most of the Yukon people. Some forty thousand pelts, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, could be taken from the area to be covered by the reservoir on a sustained-yield basis every year.
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