Earlier this month, at the Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks, state wildlife biologist Tom Seaton was shaking feed pellets onto a lush pasture. At the sound of the feed hitting the ground, a ...
Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The ...
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, ...
A half-hour’s drive from Akron, the buffalo — bison, to be exact — roam. In Marshallville, a Wayne County village of about 790 people just 17 miles from Akron as the crow flies, Red Run Bison Farm ...
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 ...
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 ...
A flat tire, a high tide and a wildfire all threatened to derail the reintroduction of the first herd of wood bison to roam the United States in more than a century. A flat tire, a high tide and a ...
When Dennis Lehman of Old Springhouse Bison Farm explains why he’s built a herd of 58 bison in Penn Township, he points to his heart. “There's something wild in here,” Lehman said, “and that's how it ...
A half-hour’s drive from Akron, the buffalo — bison, to be exact — roam. In Marshallville, a Wayne County village of about 790 people just 17 miles from Akron as the crow flies, Red Run Bison Farm ...