Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The ...

It’s been another good year for Alaska’s wood bison herd. A recent population survey shows that the Lower Innoko and Yukon Rivers herd is healthy and growing. The herd was started in 2015 with the ...

Wood bison once roamed a broad swath of Alaska’s Interior and Southcentral regions as well as Northwest Canada. Plains bison, the slightly smaller of the two North American bison subspecies, are not ...

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

Today, several thousand bison live in Canada. Fort Yukon biologist Bob Stephenson launched the effort to repopulate Alaska with wood bison in 1991, leading to the importation of 53 bison from ...

An Alaska state wildlife biologist is eying the release of another heard of wood bison in the coming years, after shepherding two other herds over the last 11 years. Tom Seaton, who heads the Alaska ...