Mission
The Musk Ox Development Corporation, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to the domestication of the musk ox and to the promotion of qiviut production as a gentle and sustainable agricultural practice in the far north.
"For all his suspicions of having achieved divinity, man is a creature of this earth, completely trapped by his dependence upon the interplay of all forms of life. For his agriculture to endure to his benefit, it must strive for harmony with its natural surroundings: No dairy cattle or pigs in the arctic, no plows on the tundra, no biocides to protect exotic crops. It must be a gentle agriculture, one of variety and one that is not too efficient." (John J. Teal, Musk Ox Project founder, 1972)
Musk Ox shedding qiviut underwool in springtime, photo courtesy of John Gomes.
