Limited bear hunting made its official return to Louisiana in December due to the bear population rebounding after three decades of protection, the state says. This is not the large bear killed by ...

Smokey Bear tells us “only you can prevent wildfires.” That has been Smokey’s simple message since 1944, but nevertheless he has been long associated with the policy of immediately ...

First things first. Smokey Bear’s middle name is not “the.” “The origin of the ‘the’ is somebody made a fun little song about Smokey and, to make the cadence of the song work, they ...

Back in the late 1880s, two remarkable men, Wilbur Zeigler and Ben Grosscup, visited Western North Carolina for the express purpose of developing a comprehensive profile of the region’s resources. ...

Because of this, it is illegal to purposely get within 150 feet of a black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains ... as these elusive scavengers prefer to hunt at night and avoid humans.