Alaska received wood bison from Canada in 2008, but it would take another seven years before they were released. One factor contributing to the delay was wood bison’s listing as endangered in ...

A bull wood bison weighing upward of 2,000 pounds moves toward higher ground at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Portage, Alaska.

Wood bison were in Alaska before. Adapted to low, wet areas, wood bison lived in Yukon Flats and other areas of Alaska from about 10,000 years ago until they disappeared.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Sunday plans to begin moving wood bison from a conservation center south of Anchorage to the village of Shageluk, the staging area for the animals ...

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 ...

Alaska has imported more wood bison from Canada as part of an effort to restore the animal’s population in the state. Some of the young animals will be added to a herd that the state established ...

State biologists plan on Sunday to begin moving wood bison from a Portage conservation center to the village of Shageluk, the staging area for the animals' release into the Innoko Flats about 350 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a baby wood bison! The wood bison calf — part of a herd reintroduced into the wild in Alaska — was born last week, the first new critter of its type to draw breath in the wild in more ...

In 1979, a pair of gold miners stumbled across the frozen carcass of a bison in Fairbanks, Alaska. They quickly notified the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the scientists there deemed it a ...