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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is one of an occasional series documenting ...

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, Alaska (AP) — When you bring an animal back into the Alaska wild for the first time in a century, you have to be prepared for some mishaps. Although at least nine of the 100 newly-released ...

Young Wood Bison that are being transported to join a herd seeded along the Innoko River in 2015. (Alaska Department Of Fish And Game) A group of young wood bison are being transported to the Lower ...