Southeast Alaska, for example, where just over 400 otters were returned, now has 25,000. There are over 125,000 sea otters alive in the Pacific Ocean today . The success is widely regarded as a ...

Head to this Alaskan island to see the "Brown Bear Capital of the World," a remote park beside a breathtaking coastal city ...

Sea otters, on the other hand, had shot up from 25% to 57% of the wolves' diet across the same timeframe. A member of the wolf pack stalking a fish in a stream. (Image credit: Oregon State ...

When otters arrived in new regions of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon in the '60s and '70s, it was still legal to hunt them. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1973, ...

Some coastal wolves in Alaska have toxic levels of mercury in their bodies after shifting from a terrestrial diet of deer and ...

For years, the regulations about who could hunt sea otters in Alaska were confusing. Many thought hunters must be at least one-quarter Alaska Native and belong to a coastal tribe.

Two sea otter pups from Alaska are getting settled in at the Minnesota Zoo after being orphaned in the wild — a high-risk situation that would have drastically reduced their chances to survive ...

In the early 1970s, nearly 100 sea otters from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands were brought to Oregon. About half were released in Port Orford in 1970 and 1971 and the rest at Cape Arago in 1971.

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of ...

Coastal Alaska wolves exposed to high mercury concentrations from eating sea otters. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 / 250528131641.htm ...

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of ...