Alaska, with its official nickname "Last Frontier," is indeed our wildest state. The climate is extreme, the topography largely inhospitable to agriculture, and much of the interior accessible ...

“We previously thought the Bering Land Bridge was all a cold, arid, grassland ... During that journey off Alaska’s western coast, a number of researchers probed the ocean floor that was ...

HABITAT: Grizzlies are highly adaptable and flourish in high mountain forests, subalpine meadows, arctic tundra, wetlands, grasslands, mixed-conifer forests and coastal areas. RANGE: Grizzly bears are ...

Those two species and a few others never seemed to have crossed the land bridge between the grasslands of Siberia and ice age Alaska. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...