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 ...
It must have been quite something to witness the sight of 60 million bison as they thundered across the Great Plains in the 1800s. Once close to extinction, North America's largest land animal has ...
Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is part of an occasional series documenting their return to Alaska. We sat in ...
Two brothers — one based in Indiana, the other in Alaska — are capturing a century-long conservation effort in their upcoming ...
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 ...
Today, several thousand bison live in Canada. Fort Yukon biologist Bob Stephenson launched the effort to repopulate Alaska with wood bison in 1991, leading to the importation of 53 bison from ...
An Alaska state wildlife biologist is eying the release of another heard of wood bison in the coming years, after shepherding two other herds over the last 11 years. Tom Seaton, who heads the Alaska ...
A group of onlookers cheered as almost two dozen bison descended a ramp out of a semi-truck and ran free into their new wild home on First Nation lands in Canada. The moving moment from February 2023 ...
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 ...
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