There's a yak farm in the Flathead! They sell yarn too. Check the website, as they are obviously way into it. http://www.springbrook.com/Tibetan-yak/Tibetan-yak-home.html
Selective breeding is much like cooking, you should have lots of ingredients to choose from and know how to mix the spices.
a quality yak should have thick wool and a full skirt.
Joy of ownership is very high with yak.
They roll their eyes at you, but you can't see it.
On the internet, nobody knows you're rolling your eyes.
how warming and increased precipitation (rain and snow) harms the seeds in the ground of the Tibetan Plateau and elsewhere. "Soil seed banks are essentially the last resort of natural resilience in ecosystems," says Scott Collins, professor at New Mexico University and an author on the paper. "Too often we focus on what we see above ground and base management decisions just on the appearance of the plant community."