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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

It's baby animal season and Alaska's wild wood bison herd has delivered in a big way. So far this spring, 19 calves have been born to the herd, the only one of its kind in the nation. More calves are ...

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 ...

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 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 ...