Word: nunivak
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...When Hickel was Governor of the state, the legislature passed a law to permit hunting of the helpless musk ox. Hickel vetoed it. Recently, the Alaska legislature passed a new bill allowing the hapless ox to be hunted. As Interior Secretary, with power over federal acreage, Hickel immediately placed Nunivak Island, the federally owned haven for musk oxen, off-limits to all hunters...
...Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly by driving them into the freezing water, then swimming after them and wrestling them ashore...
...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
...Quail and rabbit in some parts of the U.S. are threats to crops, gardens. > Fewer than 200 reindeer "planted" after World War I on Nunivak Island, off the coast of Alaska, have grown to a herd of 19,000. Since the island will support only about 10,000 reindeer, the surplus must be killed...
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