Bear hunting season has begun in New Jersey – a controversial decision that state officials say is intended to curb the population of black bears interacting with humans. Segment A of bear ...

After years of unsuccessful attempts to allow black bear hunting in the state, a revised bill has cleared a key hurdle with state lawmakers, possibly making hunting the animals one step closer to ...

Pennsylvania’s black bear hunting seasons may become more defined by region in the future as research continues to study bear populations and survival. Brandon Snavely, the Game Commission’s ...

Florida proposes its first bear hunting season in a decade, aiming to manage a growing bear population. Opposition to the hunt is widespread, with animal welfare groups and public opinion polls ...

Around the same time that the Senate took up the Sunday hunting bill Wednesday, House lawmakers moved to amend another bill, S.B. 1523, which was originally written to allow the Department of ...

Bear hunting in Florida became tabu for many years is because of the atrocities that occurred then and the overwhelming objections that arose as a result. These included reports of pre-hunting ...

In the future, the FWC foresees a bear hunt between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, subject to more studies about the effect of hunting and the population of the animals.

According to the FWC, black bear hunting occurred in Florida from the 1930s until 1994. Hunting was closed from 1994 until 2015 when it reopened in the fall.

Florida’s bear population is currently estimated at 4,050, up from just 1,200 in the 1990s when the state ended annual bear hunts. If approved, this would be the first season since 2015, when a ...