Alaska received wood bison from Canada in 2008, but it would take another seven years before they were released. One factor contributing to the delay was wood bison’s listing as endangered in ...

A 3-year-old wood bison bull approaches a fence at UAF’s Large Animal Research Station on June 19. Wood bison are the largest North American mammal. Bulls can reach 2,000 pounds. (Marc Lester ...

Two wood bison bulls weighing upward of 2,000 pounds move toward higher ground at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Portage, Alaska.

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 ...

Some 150,000 wood bison or more once roamed the boreal forests of Alaska and northwestern Canada, grazing in meadows between vast expanses of trees (thus the “wood” in their name).

The idea for Alaska’s wood bison herd was first dreamed up 23 years ago by wildlife biologist Bob Stephenson. While working in Northeast Alaska, he stumbled upon Native oral histories of the bison.

A wood bison bull recovers from testing as Mike Miller, right, and others protect the animal from other bulls at Miller's Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage, Alaska, in February 2010.

Alaska wildlife officials are preparing to release wood bison into native US habitat for the first time in more than a century Animals can weigh 2,000lbs and are North America's largest land mammal ...

Wood bison were in Alaska before. Adapted to low, wet areas, wood bison lived in Yukon Flats and other areas of Alaska from about 10,000 years ago until they disappeared.

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. Wood bison to roam Alaska again ...

In Alaska’s frozen bush, wood bison are roaming free on U.S. soil for the first time in 200 years. A herd of 100 wood bison, the largest land mammal in North America, were recently reintroduced ...

It’s a baby wood bison! The wood bison calf — part of a herd reintroduced into the wild in Alaska — was born last week, the first new critter of its type to draw breath in the wild in more ...