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Fine Luxury Yarns & Fibers - Windy Valley Muskox -
indy Valley Muskox, a family-owned farm in the beautiful Matanuska River Valley of Alaska, specializes in providing only the finest luxury yarns and fibers for the most discriminating taste.
http://www.windyvalleymuskox.net/ENHS Nature Trails April 2004 Article 3
The undercoat is shed every summer and is used by birds for nests, and in Alaska, collected and spun into the luxury fiber quiviet. (I collected a little myself, but have yet to spin it.) ;
http://biology.uoregon.edu/enhs/archive/apr04/apr043.htmlRare Musk Ox May Be Threatened By Climate Change
The research team will be assessing how musk ox are faring in areas along the Chukchi and northern Bering Seas, ... They have been reintroduced in Alaska after being wiped out in the late 19th century.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424112455.htmMuskox, Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
They currently roam the arctic tundra of northern Canada and Greenland and have been successfully returned to Alaska and Russia. A small introduced population also exists in Scandinavia.
http://www.fws.gov/species/species_accounts/bio_musk.htmlMusk Ox
They live in Canada, Greenland, the Polar Regions, Alaska and Norway. The musk ox habitat is the tundra and hilly areas.
http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/students/projects/1996-97/Hillocks96/musk_oxen.htmlMusk Ox Web Cam
Situated in Palmer, Alaska, the Musk Ox Farm is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the development and domestication of the musk ox, Ovibos moschatus.
http://www.wasillachamber.org/webcams/Muskox_frameset.htmlArctic Wildlife - Arctic Studies Center
If you visit Alaska you will find woven musk ox wool scarves at many tourist shops. Most of the arctic tundra was host to the musk ox long ago. Neolithic hunters hunted them almost to extinction.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/musk_ox.htmlMusk ox yarn - Qiviut
Qiviut- Musk Ox wool ... Species from Greenland were moved to Canada, and today they live wild in Canada, and are farmraised in Alaska, Canada and Montana.
http://www.qiviut.dk/All About the Musk Ox - ExploreNorth
In about 1865, the last musk ox in Alaska was killed near Wainwright. In 1930, a herd from Greenland was imported, eventually being moved to Nunivak Island, where they thrive today.
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa020101a.htmMusk ox yarn - Qiviut - Wholesale
; Musk ox yarn from Greenland are not available for wholesale at this time. ... Species from Greenland were moved to Canada, and today they live wild in Canada, and are farmraised in Alaska,
http://www.qiviut.eu/