#muskoxen — Public Fediverse posts
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Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen 🇨🇦
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Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen 🇨🇦
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Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen 🇨🇦
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Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen 🇨🇦
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During his first day in office, #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder opening the #Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — home to migrating #caribou, #PolarBears, #MuskOxen, millions of #birds & other #wildlife — to #drilling. But a lease sale there held in January flopped, ending without a single bidder.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #LandConservation #EnvironmentalLaw #law
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Gates of the #Arctic National Park and Preserve is an #American national park that protects portions of the Brooks Range in northern #Alaska. The park is the northernmost national park in the United States, situated entirely north of the Arctic Circle. The #park is the second largest in the #US, slightly larger in area than #Belgium. Gates of the Arctic was initially designated as a national monument on December 1, 1978, before being redesignated as a national park and preserve upon passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980.
A large part of the park has additional protection as the Gates of the Arctic #Wilderness that adjoins the Noatak Wilderness. They form the largest contiguous wilderness in the United States together.
Fauna include brown #bears, black bears, #muskoxen, #moose, Dall #sheep, timber #wolves, #wolverines, #coyotes, #lynxes, #marmots, #porcupines, river #otters, red and Arctic #fox species, #beavers, snowshoe hares, muskrats, bald #eagles, golden eagles, peregrine #falcons, ospreys, great horned and northern hawk-owls. More than half a million caribou, including the Central Arctic, Western Arctic, Teshekpuk, and Porcupine herds, #migrate through the central Brooks Range twice yearly, #traveling north in summer, and south in winter. Caribou are important as a #food source to native peoples. The park is the northernmost range limit for the Dall sheep. About 132 brown bears reside in the park and preserve, based on a density of about one bear per 100 square miles.
Watch #video https://bihlink.com/watch/?v=nImK2qsYoFM