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 ...

PORTAGE, Alaska – The first of 100 wood bison aimed at re-establishing a species that went extinct more than a century ago in Alaska were flown Sunday to a rural village. Thirty 30 juveniles age 2 or ...

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 ...

A half-dozen bison looking for food wandered into the driveway of Elena Powers’ home on Spruce Road in the agricultural area south of Delta Junction last month. (Courtesy of Elena Powers) Bison have ...

FAIRBANKS — Freed from pens, at least nine of the 100 newly released Alaska wood bison walked onto rotting ice this month and drowned. As bad as the deaths might sound, they are within the range that ...

If you’re heading to Alaska, you can get a good look at scores of wood bison, North America’s largest land mammal, in captivity. But maybe not for long. Many of the large creatures will be released ...

Alaska wildlife officials are preparing to release North America's largest land mammal into its native U.S. habitat for the first time in more than a century. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on ...

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 ...