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The filmmakers behind The Americas worked with scientists who had been tracking a female bear and knew where she was ...

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of ...

In 1992, the Louisiana black bear was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act due to years of overexploitation from hunting and widespread deforestation from wood manufacturing and ...

Grizzly bears and black bears occupy much of the same territory in North America, and the two species are known to be fierce competitors. As the one of the continent’s top predators, grizzlies ...

In Yellowstone National Park a few years ago, I listened while a man confidently explained to his wife why a brown-phase ...

Louisiana's black bear became part of American culture when President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot one that had been trapped and tied to a tree.

They are the only bear species in the state, and, despite the name, their fur ranges in color from blond to black. It’s been a century since the grizzly bear was hunted to extinction in ...

Black bears have been caught on camera in the area as far back as 2016, with a total of 112 unique camera detections of the species in seven Sonoma County parks, Murphy said. 37 of those sightings ...