A 48-year-old motorcyclist was actively talking selfies with a bear on the side of the Transfagarasan Highway when it ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in ...

Well, this is em-bear-assing.Minnesota state officials had to remind the public not to approach a hibernating bear after a well-meaning group tried to offer up a “smorgasbord” of sweets and ...

No one has been fined or cited for feeding or approaching the bear, although both are illegal on the parkway. Specifically, it is prohibited to willfully approach within 50 yards of a bear under ...

To increase the state fines would take an action by the state Legislature. The DEC said New York has had a long-standing prohibition on feeding bears, but in 2010 DEC included prohibiting ...

Plant material − not meat − accounts for about 85% of a black bear's diet, according to the National Parks Service. Bears are omnivores, meaning they eat both meat and plant matter.

Wildlife biologists and forest rangers at Lake Tahoe and across the West have been preaching the mantra for decades: Don't feed the bears.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in ...

RENO, Nev. — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in ...