...if they focus their harvest on bucks and fawns. Riley Woodford is a writer with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the editor of "Alaska Wildlife News." Fairbanks wildlife educator Mike Taras also contributed to this article.

...and looked for tracks. Sure enough, Ross found where Bacsujlaky had run into the rodent and he and fellow naturalist Mike Taras, an education specialist at the Department of Fish and Game, tracked it 300 yards through the snow almost to the edge...

...about 200 fires a year in Alaska, and lightning has started fires in the boreal forests for tens of thousands of years. Mike Taras, a wildlife educator with Fish and Game, said historically, these fires burned an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million...

...are seeing an influx of ptarmigan in town this winter. "I see them all the time; they're everywhere," naturalist Mike Taras said of the snow-white birds that are usually found in the hills around town rather than in town. "Just driving along...