"At first I thought it was the neighbor's dog running loose-until I zoomed in on it." The animal caught on camera was a black ...

From its pre-Columbian peak, the Florida black bear population fell precipitously. Between unregulated hunting and habitat ...

A N.J. court just upheld the state’s authority to regulate bear hunting, rejecting a lawsuit that claimed the system gives ...

American black bears are the smallest and most common bear in North America. They are highly adaptable, with a diet that ...

In a state with such iconic megafauna as the Florida panther and the American alligator, the shy, reclusive Florida black bear is often overlooked. Until there’s trouble. In less than two weeks ...

Please, please, please - stop feeding the bears at Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park. What may seem to be a ...

Social media posts credited an Ivan Stepanov with rescuing a drowning bear in Lake Tahoe. In reality, Adam Warwick rescued a ...

The Florida black bear has come back from numbering just a few hundred decades ago to more than 4,000 bears today. It’s a conservation success story by any measure. We divide the population into seven ...

The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade takes place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife ...

Florida's Wildlife Commission approved a black bear hunting season for December, facing immediate legal challenges from environmental advocates.

American black bears, Ursus americanus, are native to Summit County and were here long before humans arrived. We’ve built our homes and infrastructure in black-bear habitat. This final piece in ...