Do’s and Don’ts of Orphaned Wildlife
When you come upon what you think is an orphaned or abandoned animal in the wild, you should not pick it up or take it home with you. You should call the Alaska Department of Fish & Game or the Alaska State Troopers Wildlife Division. Only ADF&G or the Wildlife Troopers are authorized to pick…
Wildlife Center Adopts Rare Fox
Educational Department Receives Companion Opportunity (Portage, AK) The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center adopted its first marble fox in an ever expanding department dedicated to providing educational programs to local students and visitors alike! Storm, the new marble fox, was illegally bred as an attempted domestication animal and lived in the home until she was discovered…
Portage’s Prickly Prognosticator Sees His Shadow
While the rest of the world was making predictions on Super Bowl 49, the staff at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center was making predictions on this year’s unpredictable weather. The Wildlife Center’s porcupine, Snickers, came out of his home and proclaimed another six weeks of winter for Alaska. This all coming on the heels of…
Education Programs Receive Howling Opportunity
Wildlife Center Acquires Wolf Pup The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center procured its first wolf in an ever-expanding educational department. Deshka, the new-born Tundra wolf, whose potential impact on the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center’s (AWCC) educational department already has a number of staff excited, has recently been acclimated to a habitat on exhibit for the public.…
Media Opportunities Bruin at Wildlife Center
Photography for the Novelist and Professional Alike! Visitors from all around the world flock to Alaska, seemingly as another migratory species, for the summer season in search of the outdoors and wildlife. The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) is well known for offering natural, albeit safe, wildlife photography and filming that attracts professionals and novelists…
Final Bison Released
One at a time, eighteen mature wood bison bulls walked off a barge onto the bank of the Innoko River and disappeared into their new habitat earlier this week. “130th bison released today without injury or death during transport to any. It’s been a long, hard road, and now we turn them over to nature herself,”…
Calving Season Brings Excitement to Wildlife Center
An incredibly busy winter season, with the release of 100 wood bison, downplayed the anticipation for what has become a very busy start to the summer for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC). The Wildlife Center had a somewhat routine May on campus with four wood bison and two musk ox calves born, until this…
Early Start to Mother’s Day
The Mother’s Day excitement began a little early for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center this year, with a wood bison calf born last evening! The first wild-born calf was born on April 23rd, outside of the village of Shageluk, among the herd of reintroduced wood bison. The calf born last night is the second wood…
Portage Village Takes Roots
Ping! Ping! That’s the sound of progress around the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center! As piles get pounded into the ground AWCC gets excited for a new addition named Bison Hall, to expand and grow the education program at AWCC. As fundraising efforts continue, the beginning stages of Bison Hall have started to take shape. Bison…
Wood Bison Restoration
The United States has a population of wild wood bison for the first time in more than 100 years. On Friday, April 3, 100 wood bison which had been kept in temporary pens near Shageluk, Alaska, for just over a week were lead by Alaska Department of Fish and Game Biologist Tom Seaton across the…