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 ...

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 ...

State biologists plan on Sunday to begin moving wood bison from a Portage conservation center to the village of Shageluk, the staging area for the animals' release into the Innoko Flats about 350 ...

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 ...

Alaska wood bison. Wood bison are the largest native land mammals in the Western Hemisphere. (Photo by Laura Whitehouse/USFWS) State biologists say a recent survey of the Innoko-Yukon River wood ...

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.

A NCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It’s been a decade since an experimental population of wood bison was reintroduced to the lower ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).