North America's largest land animal will roam the Alaskan wilderness once again if a plan unveiled last week is approved. Wood bison, a subspecies of the more familiar plains bison, once lived ...

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 bison ...

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 ...

Once nearly extinct, the subspecies is set to return to the United States Jenna Schnuer One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not ...

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 ...

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, ...

Wood bison, the largest animal in the Americas, once roamed throughout present-day Alaska and western Canada. But unregulated hunting in the 1800s nearly wiped them out, and by the middle of the 20th ...

The young wood bison are temporarily staying at the U.A.F. Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo) Alaska has imported more wood bison from Canada as ...

One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not lived in the wild for over a century. Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren’t ...

North America's largest land animal will roam the Alaskan wilderness once again if a plan unveiled last week is approved. Wood bison, a subspecies of the more familiar plains bison, once lived ...