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 time ...
On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the ...
An aerial program to remove predators from caribou calving grounds in Southwest Alaska has wrapped up its second year with a total of 81 brown bears and 14 wolves killed between May 10 and June 5, the ...
New research broadens our understanding of how gray wolves interact with and influence aquatic habitats. On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves have been observed engaging in an unusual ...
Along a remote stretch of the Alaskan coast, gray wolves have quietly rewritten the rules of what a top land predator eats.
A judge has ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to pay $115,220 in attorney's fees to a retired Anchorage lawyer ...
This story has been corrected to note Prince of Wales wolves represent less than 20% of the subspecies population in both Alaska and British Columbia. The initial version of this article neglected to ...
Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about ...
An image of a wolf dragging a sea otter carcass is captured on an Alaska Department of Fish and Game game camera. Southeast Alaska’s wolves tend to favor deer and moose at mealtime, but in a pinch ...
Alaska had been a state for one year in 1960 when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile ...
This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Gretchen Roffler ...