Story Highlights • More than 6,500 hunters were selected for Michigan’s 2025 bear and elk hunts, with 6,278 bear licenses and ...

They are questioning the hunting dog rule, rallying supporters on social media and even planning an end run around the bear ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife is considering a bear hunt, which is controversial due to a poorly managed hunt in 2015. Development and habitat fragmentation pose threats to the long-term survival of ...

The proposed hunt is tightly controlled and grounded in data. It allows for just 187 tags across four Bear Management Units — less than 5% of the estimated population in those areas.

Black bear season has been closed in Florida since 1994, with the exception of a conservative hunt in fall 2015. Officials closed the 2015 season after just two days and 306 bears were tagged. They ...

Louisiana is set to expand its black bear hunting season a year ... number of bear tags from 11 to 26 for the 2025 season and to allow bear hunting in a large swath of the southernmost part of ...

Bear hunting continues through Dec. 14 in parts of the state. “It’s going to be a heck of a year to top going forward,” Price told lehighvalleylive.com . “I might never top it.” ...

Even without a bear hunt, S.B. 1523 contained other provisions clarifying the circumstances in which farmers may kill a bear that is damaging their crops or livestock.