FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s decades-long project to restore North America’s largest land mammal to Interior and Western Alaska will begin a new phase this summer with an expansion into a second region. Next ...

A flat tire, a high tide and a wildfire all threatened to derail the reintroduction of the first herd of wood bison to roam the United States in more than a century. A flat tire, a high tide and a ...

North America’s largest land animal has made it to the Kuskokwim. Most of the wood bison released in early April are still in the area around Shageluk, but one group of twenty-five broke off to ...

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 into ...

Veterinary researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have successfully produced three wood bison calves using in vitro fertilization. Veterinary researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of ...

PORTAGE, Alaska – The first of 100 wood bison aimed at re-establishing a species that went extinct more than a century ago in Alaska were flown Sunday to a rural village. Thirty 30 juveniles age 2 or ...

Big plays well in Alaska. We're the biggest state, with the most coastline. We've got the continent's tallest mountain and longest sled-dog race. We catch the world's heftiest salmon and halibut, and ...

These nights, Tom Seaton is dreaming less about red-brown, steaming, humpbacked hulks. He’s also getting more sleep, knowing dozens of wood bison that galloped to freedom behind his snowmachine last ...

YAKUTSK, July 24. /TASS/. Wood bison, which have been brought to Yakutia since 2006, will be listed in the republic's Red Data Book to preserve the species and to protect them from poachers. The local ...

Wood bison, the largest animals in North America, were nearly wiped out by hunting in the late 19th and early 20th century. After an isolated herd was discovered in Alberta in 1957, wood bison have ...