Amid a surge of applications for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, the state is reducing the number of black bears that can be taken in the controversial December event. State wildlife ...

Florida has reopened black bear hunting, and you are stepping into a fight that has only hardened since the last season a decade ago. Supporters frame the move as overdue wildlife management, while ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Bear harvest permit applications for the 2025 regulated bear hunting season in Florida open at 10 a.m. EDT on September 12 and close on September 22. A bear harvest permit is ...

Florida has seen the controversial return of legal black bear hunting for the first time in a decade, as hunters armed with rifles and crossbows began fanning out across the state's swamps and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the ...