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 bull wood bison weighing upward of 2,000 pounds moves 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 ...

The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center south of Anchorage is home to a herd of bison relocated from western Canada in 2003. Its numbers have grown from 65 to nearly 150.

A newborn wood bison nurses atop a beaver hut in Southwest Alaska, April 13, 2017. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo) It's baby animal season and Alaska's wild wood bison herd has ...

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 ...

Bison roam free on ranchland near Palmer (Photo by Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage) Earlier this month, President Obama signed into law the National Bison Legacy Act, making the ...

According to Grbavach, foxes are the smallest and most likely to avoid humans, while wolves are much larger, but equally tend ...

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.

Russian scientists have purchased yearling bison from a Delta Junction area ranch that are headed to Pleistocene Park, a 20-square-kilometer research plot in eastern Siberia.