Muskox at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Photo By/Credit

Hillebrand, Steve/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
08/30/2006
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Public Domain
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The entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain supports muskoxen. In summer, they concentrate along major rivers including the Canning, Tamayariak, Sadlerochit, Jago, Aichilik, and Kongakut. Muskoxen are an important part of the Refuge ecosystem, adding to the area's diversity and providing a year-round food source for predators and other animals.The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a vast and beautiful wilderness, is an intact continuum of six different ecological zones spanning some 200 miles north to south. Such a diverse spectrum of habitats and associated fish and wildlife populations within a single conservation area is unparalleled in the circumpolar north.
Subject tags
Wildlife viewing
Wildlife refuges
Mammals