State wildlife managers said that they are drastically reducing the number of hunting permits for an Interior Alaska bison herd after discovering that dozens of the animals died in a pond this spring.

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 ...

Hunting goal delayed Based on expectations from 20 percent annual bison herd growth rates seen in Canada, there had initially been hopes in Alaska that the herd would grow fast enough to allow some ...

FAIRBANKS — At 2,000 pounds, an adult male wood bison is North America’s largest land mammal. It dwarfs even the mighty moose, which grow up to about 1,600 pounds. These giant herbivores have been ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is one of an occasional series documenting ...