According to the FWC, the black bear population has come back from just several hundred bears in the 1970s to over 4,000 ...

We were technically waiting for bears, but we found something different: peace, solitude and harmony with the wilderness.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is considering the state's first black bear hunt in 10 years as the population rises.

The BriefFlorida officials are reconsidering bear hunting, nearly a decade after the last hunt was cut ...

Andre Rives was boar-hunting in 2021 when a female bear nicknamed Caramelles attacked him. "She was eating my leg," he said. ...

At the time of the incident, Rives and other hunters were inside a no-hunting section of the mountain forest. One of the ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff held the virtual event Thursday after commissioners told them in ...

Florida wildlife officials want residents to share their input on bear hunting regulations. The Florida Wildlife Commission ...

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host three virtual meetings in April to discuss a potential black bear hunt. The FWC is considering a hunt because the state's ...

Florida wildlife officials are holding the first in a series of online meetings about the possibility of a return to bear ...

Louisiana's black bear became part of American culture when President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot one that had been trapped and tied to a tree.