The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is preparing to launch the state’s first bear hunting season in a decade, with I-10 marking the northern boundary of the East Panhandle Bear ...

A second vote on the hunt must be taken by the state in August, but all indications point to a 187-quota hunt that could last about a month.

FLORIDA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has just released a memo shedding new light on what a proposed black bear hunt could look like in our state. The proposed rules ...

The Florida black bear is a true conservation success story. The population has increased from just a few hundred bears in the 1970s to over 4,000 today, with the four largest subpopulations all ...

Hunting provides access to the resource, allowing hunters to use the meat, pelt, fat and other parts of any bear they harvest ...

Living in the Everglades are a vast number of native animal species such as the Florida panther, American alligator ... which ...

The Florida black bear is a true conservation success story. The population has increased from just a few hundred bears in the 1970s to over 4,000 today, with the four […] The post Managing Florida's ...

A routine black bear den check in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas turned into a moment of excitement when researchers discovered three tiny cubs tucked beside their mother—a hopeful sign ...

Black bears were once overhunted and nearly brought to extinction, but conservation efforts have been successful, and now black bears are abundant in many areas throughout their range.

Expect plenty of slacklines, wall climbing, foraging walks, presentations about nature and even animals at the Virginia Black Bear Festival. But don't expect any bears.