Muskox

The Muskox we gotlastyear was about 400 lbs of meat, hide and horns.

Field & Stream 2010

The Muskox we gotlastyear was about 400 lbs of meat, hide and horns.

Field & Stream 2010

Muskox hunting was banned between 1917 and 1967, after which populations had started to recover by the 1970s when subsistence hunting was resumed under quotas.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

Muskox-caribou summer range relations on Banks Island, N.W. T. Journal of Wildlife Management, 40 (1): 151 – 162.

Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic 2009

Muskox numbers rebounded on Banks Island from a few hundred to 3,000 by 1972 and to 64000 by 2001 [9].

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

Muskox were present in extremely low numbers in the early 1900s, but populations increased in the latter half of the 20th century, giving Banks Island the largest muskox population in the world.

Climate change impacts on Canadian Western Arctic~ the Inuvialuit of Sachs Harbour 2009

Muskox numbers quickly collapsed and within 30 years only a handful of scattered herds remained on the mainland.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

Muskox introduction adds new species to regional biodiversity and ecosystem level adjustments

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic 2009

Muskox numbers and distribution in the Northwest Territories, 1997.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

The Muskox was reintroduced in the fifties into high mountain fauna in Norway, after having been extinct since the ice age.

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