The future of the Alaska wilderness has emerged as one of the most explosive issues in the legislation.

So what about oil exploration in the Alaska wilderness, one of the issues quickest to draw blood in partisan battles in Congress?

As the Senate neared a close vote on whether to allow oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness, each side in the debate expressed confidence that it would prevail.

And by that I don't mean drilling for a few more barrels of oil in the Alaska wilderness.

Alaska wilderness; exploring the Central Brooks Range 2nd ed.

Trying to tip the balance of nature in favor of moose and caribous, wildlife officials have decided to start shooting wolves from airplanes over a huge portion of the Alaska wilderness.

Soviet and Western television crews filmed as Reilly Richie, a third-grade teacher from Juneau, urged on a pair of dogs whose usual work is tracking lost hunters in the Alaska wilderness.

Raised by homesteaders in the Alaska wilderness, Jewel Kilcher spent her early years living in a barn with no heat or indoor plumbing.

In the Alaska wilderness, Boyd Emerson (Joel McCrea) and Fraser (Raymond Hatton), arrive by dogsled at a village.