The young wood bison are temporarily staying at the U.A.F. Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo) Alaska has imported more wood bison from Canada as ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - After a more than a 100-year absence from the United States, an experimental wild population of the largest North American land mammal may be reintroduced to Alaska in support of ...

ELK ISLAND NATIONAL PARK, AB, April 13, 2026 /CNW/ - Today, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature shared that the Government of Canada is transferring 44 ...

Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

FAIRBANKS — It’s calving season for the Lower Innoko/Yukon Rivers wood bison herd. So far this year, 24 calves have been spotted among several groups of adult bison. The calves were spread out from ...