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 ...

Earlier this month, at the Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks, state wildlife biologist Tom Seaton was shaking feed pellets onto a lush pasture. At the sound of the feed hitting the ground, a ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is one of an occasional series documenting ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is the first of an occasional series documenting their return to Alaska.

The decision to move wood bison into the Minto Flats area on the Lower Tanana River comes nine years after the state first released them in Western Alaska’s Lower Innoko and Yukon rivers region in ...