Entries Tagged black bears

Authorities were called to capture the cemetery bear. But they wouldn't tranquilize it because of how far the bear was up in a tree.

A young black bear has been a backyard spectacle in a central Louisiana neighborhood where he has spent the past week up one tree or another as he searches for a new home.

Authorities estimate the bear weighed between 400-500 pounds. The bear continued walking after being struck and was hit by another vehicle on the other side.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says the state has 5,700 black bears roaming its wilderness. But officials want to trim that number to 4,700.

The Department of Natural Resources' Division of Wildlife says there were 135 reported sightings believed to involve an estimated 88 bears. State personnel confirmed 60 sightings.

Nearly 2,400 black bears were killed during West Virginia's combined 2014 archery and firearms season.

Ranchers in south-central Oregon have legally killed a nearly 500-pound black bear after one of their heifers was killed by a bear and the giant animal was found in the family's cattle herd.

Students will learn about the life cycle of the Michigan black bear, general black bear biology and behavior, and how the DNR manages and maintains a healthy black bear population.

State biologists estimate New York's bear population at between 6,000 and 8,000 bears.

The six-day hunt will take place in four designated areas in parts of Sussex, Warren, Morris, Passaic Bergen, Somerset and Hunterdon counties.

New Jersey wildlife officials are issuing new permits for the state's next black bear hunt.

The North Carolina Wildlife Commission will begin a study next year of black bears in Asheville that includes tagging the animals.

Just four days after coming out of the boot from a torn achilles tendon, Barry Lovette takes to the Idaho mountains on a bowhunt for black bears.