Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, black bear populations are rebounding across the U.S. In Arkansas, hunters talk about their annual black bear hunt — a practice they acknowledge is ...

In the last three years, according to data from the Nevada Division of Wildlife, 95% (42 of 44) of bears killed by hunters in ...

Florida's first bear hunt in a decade generated $900K in fees but limited data for the public and minimal business for taxidermists.

Nevada’s black bear hunt amounts to an unsportsmanlike escapade, say wildlife advocates, who contend the state-sanctioned practice of hounding reduces the sport to shooting fish in a barrel. With a ...

Our black bears deserve better; our people deserve better. Pandering to special interest groups and blood sport enthusiasts is wrong on every level. The North American model for wildlife conservation ...

Before he had made two jumps George slammed another 180-grain bullet into his chest, and again he stopped but didn’t go down. He was in shock now, however, and stood with blood gushing out of him ...

A Florida man’s morning work commute was delayed after he was greeted by a black bear strolling across his front yard.

The Louisiana black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, once almost disappeared from the state entirely. The black bear was named the official state mammal in 1992. By the late twentieth ...

New Mexico chose the American black bear as its state animal in 1963 to reflect its mountain landscapes, the legacy of Smokey Bear, and changing attitudes toward wildlife. The designation marked a ...

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