State wildlife managers said that they are drastically reducing the number of hunting permits for an Interior Alaska bison herd after discovering that dozens of the animals died in a pond this spring.

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 ...

Gold miners working in northern regions around Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1979, were engaged in washing away frozen sediments at a placer mining operation with hydraulic hoses when something extraordinary ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is part of an occasional series documenting their return to Alaska. We sat in ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It’s been a decade since an experimental population of wood bison was reintroduced to the lower Yukon River area in Southwest Alaska, and more calves will be joining the ...

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 documenting their return to Alaska.

Reintroduced animal populations face many challenges. When they are introduced to habitats with human infrastructure, it adds ...