Question: what is ecological imperialism and what did it mean for north america

title: Ecological imperialism
text: The fur trade also upset the ecological balance of North America . `` Restraint was n't a hallmark of the fur trade . In 1822 , in the north western regions of the country alone , the Hudson 's Bay Company stockpiled 1500 fox skins , a paltry number compared with the 106,000 beaver skins , but too many none the less . The fur traders had miscalculated . As predators , they had failed to adapt to their prey , and their prey , in turn , retaliated with denial . Of course , the red fox did n't render himself extinct . His numbers merely shrank . '' .