Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff held the virtual event Thursday after commissioners told them in ...

Florida wildlife officials want residents to share their input on bear hunting regulations. The Florida Wildlife Commission ...

According to the FWC, the black bear population has come back from just several hundred bears in the 1970s to over 4,000 ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is considering the state's first black bear hunt in 10 years as the population rises.

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of ...

They are the only bear species in the state, and, despite the name, their fur ranges in color from blond to black. It’s been ...

Florida officials are reconsidering bear hunting, nearly a decade after the last hunt was cut short. Conservationists argue habitat loss, not overpopulation, is the real threat, while proponents say ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host three virtual meetings in April to discuss a potential black bear hunt. The FWC is considering a hunt because the state's ...

FWC said in Thursday's meeting the range occupied by bears in the state increased from 17 percent in 1993 to 51 percent in ...

We were technically waiting for bears, but we found something different: peace, solitude and harmony with the wilderness.