The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has scheduled a series of virtual public meetings to gather ...

Hunters get two bear tags, and during a five-day hunt, most get the chance to hang them both on big bears. My first opportunity came quickly, about a half-hour into the first evening. A goliath ...

Didn’t think they came so big.” It was dark when we started skinning the bear, and it took us until midnight to finish the job. We found lard four or five inches thick immediately under the skin. Our ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking for public input on a potential black bear hunt.

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of hunters allowed to participate and more than tripling the number of ...

Big Bend State Representative Jason Shoaf ... support and criticism for how the state is handling the bear population. Supporters say a hunt could help better manage bear populations as the ...

The DEC announced recently the numbers on the bears harvested during the 2024 season. The 1685 bears taken were 24% higher ...

Although it’s been nearly a decade since Florida last allowed hunting of black bears, hundreds who took part this week in a meeting about another possible hunt proved it remains a divisive issue.

Hounding of bears by hunters during bear hunting season was outlawed by the Legislature in 2012 and shouldn’t come back even if hunters don’t intend to kill the bears. As in 2012, it remains ...

Pat Callahan, a Republican from New Fairfield. “They are saying the numbers are up, they are big healthy bears, and they recommend a bear hunt as well.” Callahan said only two states do not ...

Some bear hunt proponents have used the approval of Amendment ... There are hundreds of bears in the Big Cypress National Preserve, located mostly in eastern Collier County. There's also a ...