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Least ConcernHistorically, mole skins were extensively marketed. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries mole skins were used for capes, trimmings, purses, and tobacco pouches. As late as the 1920’s they were still being trapped for their fur. After World War I, the mole skin business was extremely lucrative and a skin of S. townsendii was fetching between $0.50-0.60. By the mid-1930’s there was no longer a demand or a market for mole skins.
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- Scapanus townsendii
- taxon name
- Scapanus townsendii
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon rank
- species
- gestation period
- 30
- taxon common name
- Townsend-Maulwurf
- short name
- S. townsendii
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