Muskox husbandry.

 Muskox husbandry

A few hardy folks are working on this, but just like convetting the Boreral forest in a grassland silvaculture biome, it takes direct market support by governments in particular.  and lots of folks making it all work.

I have discovered this is not impossible in fact.  Extending this approach to about 55 degrees north is also plausible, but it takes dealing with the permafrost at some level and optimising Musox husbandry which appears to be actually attractive.

The muskox themselves produce an annual fleece the is superb, and they also produce a milk that apparently tastes like ice cream.  The meat and hide component should be simiar to beef and buffalo.  We have really good reasons to pay attention.

For storablle fodder, we have native forbes and particularly various cattails in wetlands.  This means scrapping off a thawed surface layer to build a windrow.  Then coming back each year to repeat until the surface has become deep enough to provide a thick enough working layer.  plastic sheeting could actually speed this up to prevent petrmafrost recovery.

It is obviously difficult but the plants are already there needing this boost.  All this provides ample fodder and storable fodder as well including winter cover.

It can be done and it is a process taking an unknown number of seasons.  Yet we will produce millions of animals as well as massively expnading the biological content of even tundra.

I have recently seen a device able to hold and defleece a sheep in one quick go.  The sheep even looked happy.  Handy to have.  Ad if they are also been milked as well, they may really get acclimatized.