The Wisconsin DNR reports a successful 2024 Bear season this fall, ... Visit the DNR’s Bear Hunting webpage to learn more about black bear hunting, ecology and management in Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wis. - The application deadline for Wisconsin's 2025 black bear and turkey hunting seasons is less than a week away, and the state Department of Natural Resources has a number of ...

MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday announced preliminary results for the 2024 bear season. This fall, bear hunters harvested 4,285 bears during the five-week ...

A woman who was attacked and severely injured by a black bear over the weekend outside her western Wisconsin home had her ...

The DNR Bear Advisory Committee developed the Wisconsin Black Bear Management Plan 2019-2029, and the Natural Resources Board approved it in May. New management zones defined in the plan are ...

The woman, identified by the DNR as Karen Frye, reported the attack that happened near the town of Comstock in Barron County ...

The Department of Natural Resources will issue 14% more black bear hunting licenses as part of a plan to hit a 6% higher kill goal for the species this year in Wisconsin.. The DNR's bear hunting ...

The Natural Resources Board approved a harvest quota of 4,440 black bears for the 2021 Wisconsin hunting season, ... The 2021 Wisconsin bear hunting season runs Sept. 8 to Oct. 12.

With black bear numbers declining in three of four management zones, the DNR reduced the harvest quota for the 2020 Wisconsin bear hunting season.

Wisconsinite Bill Foster arrowed a huge black bear in September 2022 that officially ties the state record for the largest black bear ever taken with a bow. It also ties the No. 4 all-time black bear ...

Rachel Germain remembers distinctly when wolves became a problem for her family. It was winter 2012-2013, she said, "and it's just gotten worse since then." A college student, Rachel, 19, of ...

Bear hunting benefits. According to the DNR, Wisconsin has a thriving bear population – estimated at around 23,000 bears with a range that covers more than half the state.