The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade will take place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials despite strong opposition to the eventual use of dogs and ...

The real problem, according to hunting critics: unsecured trash cans. Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade will take place as scheduled next month after a state judge on Monday denied a motion by a ...

Florida’s black bear population has risen from a few hundred animals in the 1970s to more than 4,000 today. After years of bear population increases and growing numbers of human-bear conflicts, the ...

This month, Florida allowed the first black bear hunt in 10 years after the last one was ended abruptly over too many killed.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife commission recently passed more hunting regulations targeting black bears as part of the ...