FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s decades-long project to restore North America’s largest land mammal to Interior and Western Alaska will begin a new phase this summer with an expansion into a second region. Next ...

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 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, ...

Interior Alaska could see its second population of wood bison released next spring as soon as the snow melts under a recently announced plan by the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife. State ...

Severe winter conditions over the 2022-2023 season led to a decline in the Lower Innoko-Yukon rivers wood bison population, including most of the 28 yearlings that were released into the herd in ...

As a group of once-endangered Alberta wood bison join a larger herd in Skownan First Nation, hope for the future of the culturally vital species grows ...