School supplies for some classes in the Canadian Yukon include headlamps, sleeping bags, snow boots and hiking boots. It helps to know how to drive a snowmobile or ATV. Regular classes involve getting ...

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 ...

The question had plagued ice age researchers for a long time, says Yukon government paleontologist Grant Zazula— when did bison arrive in North America? The answer was found, in large part, thanks to ...

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 ...

The R.G. White Large Animal Research Station at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be home to 40 11-month-old wood bison for a month. The bison arrived late Thursday evening after leaving Alberta ...

These nights, Tom Seaton is dreaming less about red-brown, steaming, humpbacked hulks. He’s also getting more sleep, knowing dozens of wood bison that galloped to freedom behind his snowmachine last ...

Perhaps he is still stomping around somewhere, but a DNA test has confirmed that it was not Bigfoot roaming the Yukon earlier this month — it was just a bison. A hair sample was reportedly plucked ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TNS) — After humans, the mammals most successful at colonizing North America were the bison that thundered across the Great Plains. Just when they arrived on the continent from Asia ...

In Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet Season 7, Dr. Michelle grapples with a bison herd’s tricky breeding situation, helps orphaned bear cubs embark on a journey, and even participates in a human-vs-reindeer race.

If your Alaskan cruise makes a stop in Skagway, the White Pass Railroad is one excursion you don’t want to miss. While many travelers opt for the famous 8-hour round-trip ride deep into the Yukon, ...