Meet America's only wild wood bison

SHAGELUK – Wood bison calves are easy to spot from the sky. Their coats are a reddish hue, making them readily distinguishable from their mothers, even as they appear as minuscule dots against Alaska’s vast landscape.

The calves may look insignificant from the air, but they are special. They are the first wood bison both bred and born in the wilds of Alaska in over a century — a huge milestone for what has been a lengthy and uncertain experiment in reintroducing the species to the state.

“It’s really the beginning of wild wood bison in the United States,” said Tom Seaton, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist who has overseen the project for the last five years.

Their existence represents the conservation of a species once thought extinct, and revived from nearly nothing.

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