This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Gretchen Roffler ...

A recent lobbying, fundraising and advertising campaign by Defenders of Wildlife encourages Congress to strictly limit Alaska’s ability to control its abundant wolf populations. The campaign skews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wolf on Pleasant Island, Alaska, with a sea otter head in its mouth. Gretchen Roffler When Alaska’s wolves began eating sea ...

Scientists show that wolves that are eating sea otters in Alaska have much higher concentrations of mercury than those eating other prey such as deer and moose. In late 2020, a female coastal wolf ...

For many years the islands off Alaska’s coast have enjoyed a relatively steady balance between small critters and large, prey species and predators. This was especially true for the largest predator ...

The Salty Dog Saloon landmark on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, at the end of Kenai Peninsula and surrounded by Kachemak Bay. (Lawrence Weslowski Jr./Dreamstime/TNS) A judge has ordered the Alaska ...

Pleasant Island in Alaska is not exactly befitting of its name. The frigid, 20-square-mile island is uninhabited by humans, but it hosts a remarkably large and rich ecosystem that features deer, ...

An image of a wolf dragging a sea otter carcass is captured on an Alaska Department of Fish and Game game camera. Southeast Alaska’s wolves tend to favor deer and moose at mealtime, but in a pinch ...

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of time ...

A judge has ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to pay $115,220 in attorney’s fees to a retired Anchorage lawyer and wildlife advocate who successfully sued the state over a wolf-killing ...