Entries Tagged black bears

A poor berry harvest is pushing bears into residential areas in search of food as they prepare for hibernation.

Wildlife officials say a Fort Collins man shot and killed a young black bear that got into a fight with his dog in his backyard.

Did you know bears love swimming pools? Check out this fun-loving black bear family cool off in a suburban pool.

Vincent and Donna Doser had spotted bison, elk and other animals as they motorcycled through Yellowstone National Park, but no bears. As they exited the park's Northeast Entrance on August 10, that was about to change very quickly and with a thud.

A retired Pittsburgh schoolteacher could do nothing but laugh after a black bear broke into her car in Montana, destroyed the interior while trying to escape, and finally busted out through the windshield.

Bowhunting bears is generally pretty routine. But when it’s not, it can be all an archer can handle!

Game wardens had previously offered the man a permit to legally shoot bears after one damaged his property. But Foy says the man turned it down because he feared retribution by animal activists.

A Mississippi taxidermist must pay $4,300 for hiding the skin of a threatened Louisiana black bear from investigators, and a man who helped take the bear to him must pay an equal amount.

A college party got a little wild when a black bear showed up. The black bear, weighing between 300 and 400 pounds, crashed the party near the campus of Lehigh University.

Wildlife officials say an adult black bear scratched its way into a tent and bit a man on his forearm at a campground on the eastern end of Ruedi Reservoir near Aspen.

Every spring, adolescent male black bears wander into Arkansas cities looking for food. They're the nomads of bear society, kicked out of their dens to make room for the next litters and looking for easy meals.

Police have shot and killed a black bear that wandered into the backyard of a central New Jersey home where a yard sale was being staged.

Black bear populations have been slowly increasing throughout southern New England in recent decades.