Bears Articles

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is under attack by three anti-hunting activists groups suing the agency and its federal partners for a variety of reasons.

Estimating numbers of wild game animals to help set hunting seasons requires some in-field work and the method used for black bears is quite interesting.

After 30-some years, Bob Robb has developed somewhat of an obsession when it comes to hunting black bears.

Michigan government agencies will meet with sporting clubs, farmers and hunters in December to discuss what to do about bear management.

On a recent elk hunt, Mark Kayser had a nerve-wrecking experience packing out a big bull elk while a bear tried to steal his harvest.

A California woman who had a 400-pound bear killed to protect her family has not regretted the decision, but the community has responded in a brash way.

A California man awoke in the night to find a mother bear and her cubs breaking into his house, and he got the entire event on video.

Though an increasing bear population isn't necessarily a good thing, there's never been a better time for bear hunters.

Arizona Game and Fish Department officials are under fire after capturing and euthanizing a bear that wandered into a Flagstaff neighborhood.

A 100-pound bear cub was sent back to the wild after being spotted going through trashcans in a Los Angeles County neighborhood.

A trail camera watches over a one-eyed Minnesota bear for several days as it emerges from four months of hibernation with stiff limbs and tired muscles.

Following their professor being attacked in an Alaska mountain range, students feared for their lives the brown bear would return.

Bears on a trampoline? Yes! This is real, and fun. Well, fun for all except the family dog.

In bizarre bear news, a man who told his girlfriend bears were chasing them and to jump off a cliff, has been hit with murder charges. The things people do...

Extreme drought conditions have forced hungry bears to descend from the mountains into small California towns in search of food and water.

There has been a surge of bear deaths along Montana highways as more bears have been making their way down to river valleys in search of food ahead of their winter hibernation.

This bulldog may weigh just 20 pounds but it's not intimidated by bears. In fact, the bears are the ones that wind up fleeing the scene.

The baiting season accounts for most of the bear hunting in Maine and started on Aug. 31 this year. The general hunting season runs until Nov. 28, and hunting with dogs is still legal until Oct. 30.

A drum full of corn is not the only kind of feeder that attracts a bear. Bird feeders filled with seed, suet or even nectar for hummingbirds can be a draw.

A Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesman says a lack of wild food in the park this year has caused hungry bears to become increasingly brazen in their attempts to take people's food.

The New Mexico Game Commission is expected to vote on a proposal that would ease limits on hunting and trapping bears and cougars around the state.

Authorities want to talk to a man who donned a fairly realistic bear costume, head and all, and wore it when harassing a mother bear and two cubs trying to feed on pink salmon.

A whitewater raft guide on the Nolichucky River in Erwin has saved a dehydrated, underweight bear cub.

A Kodiak homeowner shot and killed a 9-foot-tall bear on his lawn after it charged him. Six shots were need to bring down the 1,000 pound bear.

A bear that may be the one that attacked a teenager at Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been euthanized, and DNA samples from the animal have been sent for testing.

Connecticut officials say they plan to euthanize a bear that chased two runners in separate incidents at a game refuge in Granby.

Wildlife officials have set up traps in an effort to capture a bear suspected of mauling a small dog outside a central Florida home.

The proposal would also make it unlawful to leave out food to feed or attract bears, as well neglecting to take away food or trash that have attracted bears.

National Park Service rangers say bear sightings could increase this year in East Tennessee and southeast Kentucky.