FAIRBANKS — At 2,000 pounds, an adult male wood bison is North America’s largest land mammal. It dwarfs even the mighty moose, which grow up to about 1,600 pounds. These giant herbivores have been ...

FAIRBANKS — Freed from pens, at least nine of the 100 newly released Alaska wood bison walked onto rotting ice this month and drowned. As bad as the deaths might sound, they are within the range that ...

Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is the first of an occasional series ...

The American bison got close to us in upstate New York (Buffalo, New York, carries that name for a reason), but as far as we know, never made it to Maine. However, I was able to get up close to these ...

Today, several thousand bison live in Canada. Fort Yukon biologist Bob Stephenson launched the effort to repopulate Alaska with wood bison in 1991, leading to the importation of 53 bison from ...