A rare sighting of a black bear roaming in southwest Illinois has surprised residents and prompted wildlife officials to ...

Bear sightings, hunting permit deadlines, and duck season updates—Trey Reid of AGFC breaks down what Arkansas outdoorsmen ...

To cull the population growth, the Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Board voted this week in favor of new regulations to expand the bear hunting season. “[Bears] will become established in ...

The increase in bears comes with challenges, as shown by a case where a hunter illegally killed a black bear on private property, highlighting ongoing issues with wildlife protection and law ...

The conservation department said it is unknown if the bear has cubs. The black bear population in Missouri is growing, but most black bears are found in the southern part of the state. Black bears ...

Florida's black bear population has rebounded significantly during the past decade, leading to increased human-bear encounters. Florida officials confirmed an 89-year-old man and his dog were ...

By the 1930s, habitat loss and unregulated hunting had reduced the population to an estimated 12 individuals and bear hunting was banned in the state in 1932. The population slowly gained numbers ...

As recently as 20 years ago, any bear sighting in Missouri made statewide headlines. Today, the state’s bear population has become established, the range of these large mammals in Missouri ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is proposing a three-week bear hunt in December to address the growing bear population. The proposed hunt would allow for the harvest of 187 ...

During this period, the polar bear population in this region has declined by nearly 50 per cent. The monitoring data shows the average size of polar bears is also in decline. The body mass of ...

state wildlife officials elected to euthanize 13 bear cubs to help protect the broader bear population. Dr. David Unger, the Associate Professor of Biology at Maryville College, shared an outside ...

Black bears were all but wiped out in Mississippi about 100 years ago and as a result, protections for the fragile population were put in place and a bear program was developed to help understand ...