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 ...

Joe Cantil, a retired tribal health worker, said the idea for the page started when looking down at the vast open lands of Alaska from an airplane on a hunting trip near Fairbanks. "You're out in ...

A proposed gravel road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge would connect King Cove, a fishing community of roughly 925 people, with the closest regional airport in Cold Bay.

According to the National Wildlife Refuge Association, staffing of the refuge system nationally was reduced by 30% over the last 15 years; in Alaska it has been a bare-bones operation.

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 ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

In a 2022 study published in the journal Science Advances, the Woodwell researchers used data from Alaska firefighting efforts mounted between 2007 and 2015 in calculations that found that ...

The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies.

The Biden administration has thrown its support behind a controversial land swap that would allow a road to be built through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska. In a draft environmental review ...

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.

Alaska, like other states around the nation, is compiling a 10-year plan to guide conservation of sometimes vulnerable wildlife populations. Alaska’s State Wildlife Action Plan, which is in ...