(11 May 2025)
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Palmer, Alaska – 10 May 2025
1. Mid shot of a musk ox resting beside stacked tires at Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska
2. Wide shot of musk oxen resting
3. Close up of a musk ox resting with its calf
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dani Biersteker, Musk Ox Farm Education Director:
"The Musk Ox Farm is a nonprofit, and we’ve been located here on this facility in Palmer, Alaska, since 1986, and since then we’ve done an annual Mother’s Day celebration where we’re celebrating our human moms and our mama musk oxen. So, we open up to the public for one day to get to wander a select couple chutes and get to see these guys a little bit different than you can on our normal everyday business."
5. Mid shot of a musk ox resting by a fence at Musk Ox Farm
6. Musk ox grazing
7. Wide shot shot of musk oxen grazing
8. Mid shot of musk oxen grazing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dani Biersteker, Musk Ox Farm Education Director:
"So the musk ox farm is surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges. So behind me is the Talkeetnas, and we have 75 beautiful acres out here with 75 amazing musk oxen on them, three of which are brand new as of the last couple weeks."
10. Wide shot of musk oxen grazing at Musk Ox Farm with snow-capped mountains in the background
11. Wide shot of musk oxen grazing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dani Biersteker, Musk Ox Farm Education Director:
"So yeah, musk oxs are an amazing Arctic critter that are made for the harsh Arctic here in Alaska and all over the circumpolar, and so we keep them here for both education and they give us their qiviut every spring. if you were to think about a musk oxen as a giant Arctic goat, so they’ve survived the last Ice Age. They’re very much their own thing, but their closest relatives here in North America is actually a mountain goat, and so they have lots of goaty tendencies with just a lot of extra weight behind them."
13. Close up of a musk ox grazing
14. Wide shot of musk oxen grazing
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dani Biersteker, Musk Ox Farm Education Director:
"Musk oxen have kind of two main coats on them. Their outer coat that blows in the winds that makes them look all majestic is their guard hair. It’s like their shell. It protects them like a raincoat all year. And then under that is their very special qiviut, and qiviut is what keeps them warm all winter. Think of it like a giant puffy coat."
16. Close up of a musk ox grazing
17. Wide shot of musk ox grazing
STORYLINE:
It’s one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the Ice Age.
All moms get a flower and free admission Sunday at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, about an hour’s drive north of Anchorage.
Once inside, they will have the chance to view more than 70 members of the musk ox herd, including Trebek, a young bull named after the late “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, a benefactor of the facility.
Officials say it’s a great way to celebrate Mother’s Day with a musk ox who has just given birth to an adorable calf.
Mother’s Day is the traditional start of the summer season for the farm, which traces its roots back to 1964 and at several locations before moving in 1986 to Palmer.
That move put them on Alaska’s limited road system, provided easier access to grazing land than in tundra communities and allowed them to incorporate educational opportunities at the farm facility dwarfed by the nearby Chugach Mountains.
The very first year they were open in Palmer is when this tradition started, and now stretches over three generations.
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