Florida hunters may celebrate this holiday season with three weeks of bear hunting. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

While rare in Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties, black bears are no strangers to the Treasure Coast. The FWC ...

The FWC is still receiving public comments, and their online database is dominated by citizens against the bear hunt.

Black bear hunters are advised of a change in Bear Management Units (BMUs) and spring season dates in the Boulder River ...

Hunting bears who are simply ... Experts also recommend simply being “bear aware” and keeping a small can of bear spray in case of an emergency. Black bears are vital members of healthy ...

“We’re talking about black bears that are becoming more and more dangerous as they get used to humans.” Opponents, meanwhile, say that those pushing for the hunt are reacting to the public ...

“It was kind of a big dice roll with this hunt,” Sugalski said, “And it backfired. They did not expect how bad it was going to be.” Florida ended black bear hunting in 1994, but opened it ...

The proposed hunt would allow for the harvest of 187 ... a distinct subspecies of the American black bear, was listed as a threatened species as recently as 2012; the population had dwindled ...