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Alaska does not count cows as a native species, but on far-flung Chirikof Island, in the Kodiak Archipelago, feral cattle dominate the harsh landscape. It's a hard life out there for an unmanaged herd ...

ANCHORAGE -- A scrappy herd of cattle is on its own again, foraging for beach rye and other grasses on a storm-battered Alaska island, surviving much as it has for more than a century -- without a ...

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