Wildlife officials estimate there are now 60,000 black bears in California, roughly triple the figure from 1998. With ...

are recolonizing the state and crossing paths with humans with increasing frequency. In 1992, the running black bear population estimate in California was 10,000 to 15,000 individuals; today that ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the state's black bear population at just under 60,000. Statewide, from 2017 to 2022 there were more than 6,000 reports of human-bear ...

It’s been a century since the grizzly bear was hunted to extinction in California, leaving only its image, ironically, on the state flag. Estimating black bears’ numbers is a fraught exercise.

One hundred years after the last grizzly bear ... California residents, elected officials, and policy makers to determine if bears should return to the state with a golden grizzly on its state flag.

California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was operating on a black bear conservation ... into the Northern Sierra bear conservation region, its unique bi-state position also poses ...

Around 8 p.m. last night, UC Santa Barbara sent an emergency notification saying that Fish and Wildlife and university police are planning on containing the black ... the bear between Hope Ranch and ...