A bay of Alaska's Inside Passage as seen from the Anan Wildlife Viewing Area in Tongass National Forest. At 17 million acres, Tongass is the nation's largest national forest.

Summer’s when things get really exciting—bears are out there slamming salmon runs like pros. It’s peak time for photos and just soaking in the wildlife action. Hopping on an Alaska bear viewing tour ...

Alaska’s new wildlife action plan, in draft form, identifies 362 vertebrates as being of “greatest conservation need,” a number that includes 188 bird species, 101 fish species, 43 ...

A black bear cub was tranquilized by Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologists outside the southeast entrance to the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Anchorage on ...

An empty animal enclosure at the Kroschel Films Wildlife Center in Mosquito Lake, near Haines. It’s been three weeks since the Alaska Department of Fish and Game seized dozens of animals from a ...

Boosting suppression to limit Alaska boreal wildfires to their historic levels would avoid the release of 0.89 gigatons to 3.87 gigatons of carbon dioxide through 2050, at an average annual ...

Every job has its fair share of drudgery and red tape. This is, as the jokes go, doubly true for government workers. So that’s one reason, perhaps, why this collection of vintage photographs by ...

The program distributes money to states to use on conservation projects that are designed in accordance with wildlife action plans. For Alaska, the most recent grant funding was about $2.76 million.