We sat in silence at 2:50 p.m. on May 13 as we watched wood bison take their first steps out of the soft release pen as wild ...

Sixty-one wood bison were released near Fairbanks. Prince of Wales students harvest black seaweed for tribal events. New restrooms have been added in Homer parks. Dwight Yoakam concert announced for ...

For hundreds of years, wood bison roamed freely across Alaska. Now they’re nearly extinct. But there’s an effort underway to reintroduce the species in the Interior. Biologists believe because of ...

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 ...

A project to re-establish wood bison in Alaska has suffered a setback. The Lower Innoko Yukon Rivers wood bison herd experienced a major decline last winter, and as KUAC’s Dan Bross reports, it’s not ...

Young Wood Bison that are being transported to join a herd seeded along the Innoko River in 2015. (Alaska Department Of Fish And Game photo) A project to reestablish wood bison in Alaska suffered ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - By the early 1900s, native wood bison had disappeared from Alaska, with only a few hundred remaining in Canada. Biologists are working on changing the future of wood bison, ...

The reintroduction of wood bison to Interior Alaska continues with the arrival of forty calves from Elk Island National Park in Canada. Reestablishing the Population The eleven-month-old calves left ...

Supporting the relocation of bison has been an important part of Elk Island National Park's mission for more than a century. Both the wood and plains bison herds from the park have supplied bison ...