April 21 (Reuters) - Dozens of Canada's wood bison, who live in northern Alberta and are North America's largest land animals, have been moved to Alaska to establish conservation herds to ensure their ...

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.

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 country’s only wild wood bison population appears to be on the upswing, following population growth in 2021 and 2022, according to Alaska Fish and Game wildlife biologist Tom Seaton. A Nov. 28 ...

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 ...