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When Biologists Stocked Alaska with Wolves

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 20, 2019 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Alaska had been a state for one year in 1960 when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile island exposed to the open Pacific had a high density of blacktailed deer and no wolves. That summer, biologists from Fish […]

OU, BU and Smithsonian researchers investigate ancient species in Gulf of Alaska

By Jana Smith Oklahoma University, Remove term: Jana Smith Oklahoma University Jana Smith | University of Oklahoma on Dec 19, 2016 Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Invasive species have shaped island ecosystems and landscapes in the Gulf of Alaska, but their histories are unknown. In a study by the University of Oklahoma, Boston University and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, researchers investigated the archaeological and genetic history of the Arctic ground squirrel on Chirikof Island, Alaska. This small mammal has […]