Unlike most of us, Jordan Pruszenski has held in her arms the following wild animals: wolves, caribou, beavers, muskrats, musk oxen, emperor geese and moose. Also, as part of her job, she a few times each year wraps one of Alaska’s farthest-north grizzlies in her arms, stretching a tape measure along its ribs, her chin […]
A settlement has been made between the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Agriculture after USDA accused UAF in mid-April of possible Animal Welfare Act violations and a failure to provide adequate veterinary care in the starvation deaths of 12 musk oxen at the large-animal research station. The animals either died or were […]
