Next month, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will start transporting about 65 wood bison to Minto Flats State Game Refuge about 35 miles west of Fairbanks for release into the wild there ...

PORTAGE, Alaska – The first of 100 wood bison aimed at re-establishing a species that went extinct more than a century ago in Alaska were flown Sunday to a rural village. Thirty 30 juveniles age ...

They are the first wood bison both bred and born in the wilds of Alaska in more than a century — a huge milestone for what has been a lengthy and uncertain experiment in reintroducing the ...

For centuries, the Athabascan people of Alaska relied on wood bison for survival. That is until the species, deemed by the National Park Service as the largest terrestrial animal in North America ...

Some 150,000 wood bison or more once roamed the boreal forests of Alaska and northwestern Canada, grazing in meadows between vast expanses of trees (thus the “wood” in their name). But ...

Wood bison are native to Alaska, but disappeared from the state more than a century ago. They're bigger than plains bison found in Lower 48 states and are North America's largest land animal.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It’s been a decade since an experimental population of wood bison was reintroduced to the lower ...

It’s been another good year for Alaska’s wood bison herd. A recent population survey shows that the Lower Innoko and Yukon Rivers herd is healthy and growing. The herd was started in 2015 with ...

Alan and Elaine Wilson via Wikimedia Commons Wood bison, the largest animal in the Americas, once roamed throughout present-day Alaska and western Canada. But unregulated hunting in the 1800s ...

Herds of wood bison once roamed northern Canada and much of Alaska. The bison — scientific name Bison bison athabascae — are a northern subspecies of the American bison that once lived in ...

Some 150,000 wood bison or more once roamed the boreal forests of Alaska and northwestern Canada, grazing in meadows between vast expanses of trees (thus the “wood” in their name). But ...