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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of bison grazing in a lush Nebraska prairie at sunset with a winding river and three deer in the distance.© A-Z Animals The ...