Hunt opens for muskox stranded on Triangle Island

(Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
A muskox is stranded on Triangle Island, a small piece of land about three miles north of Nunivak Island. There’s little food and no fresh water on the small island. And the state doesn’t expect the animal to survive for long.
Beginning Saturday, a special permit hunt will open. Whoever can get a permit and get to the island can harvest the muskox.
Fish and Game biologist Patrick Jones says the animal most likely floated over from