Supporters of the plan to exchange land in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which lies just south of the more-famous Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, say they would like the plan to be ...

The land swap not only would allow oil drilling within the 9-million-acre Yukon Flats refuge, which borders the more famous Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it could necessitate the building of ...

The Yukon Flats Wildlife Refuge lies north of Fairbanks, east of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and directly south of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. At more than 8 million acres, it is the third ...

That is set to change this summer. At the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, managers are experimenting with a fire plan aimed at protecting the sequestered carbon on the boreal forest floor ...

A wildlife biologist at Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge presented his findings after studying the kill-rate of moose by wolves in the Yukon Flats. Wildlife biologist Bryce Lake studied the ...

Every spring, millions of ducks touch down on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a spread of muskeg and dark water the size of Maryland. These days, more ruddy ducks seem to be among them.

The elite firefighters – known as smokejumpers – are being deployed along the frontlines in the remote Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The region’s permafrost, a layer of permanently ...