The young wood bison are temporarily staying at the U.A.F. Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo) Alaska has imported more wood bison from Canada as ...

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, ...

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 ...

The decision to move wood bison into the Minto Flats area on the Lower Tanana River comes nine years after the state first released them in Western Alaska’s Lower Innoko and Yukon rivers region in ...

Dozens of Canada's wood bison, who live in northern Alberta and are North America's largest land animals, have been moved to Alaska to establish conservation herds to ensure their long-term survival, ...

The yearling wood bison are now officially free in their new stomping grounds on the Lower Yukon-Innoko Basin. Last Friday, the 28 bison were released from the soft-release pen, where they spent ...

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 ...

Last week, 28 wood bison departed Fairbanks for greener pastures. The 14-month-old bison, which originated in Canada, have been quarantining at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Large Animal ...

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 ...