More than half the bears killed during December's Florida bear hunt were from the state's Panhandle, but the biggest animal killed was a 697-pound male in Collier County. Overall, 52 bears were killed ...

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What is going on with the black bear hunt, does the FWC even know? We have a 3-week hunt with no monitoring or check stations. This hunt goes against the North America model for wildlife conservation ...

Florida's recent black bear hunt resulted in 52 bears being taken out of 172 permits issued. Black bear advocate groups purchased 52 of the hunting permits to prevent those bears from being killed.

State wildlife officials said the hunt was needed to manage Florida’s growing bear population, while opponents said the agency was using flawed data to allow what they called a “trophy hunt.” ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff Nemeth wasn’t one of them – he and his son harvested a 503-pound ...

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 ...

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As the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission continues to analyze the state's first permitted bear hunt in a decade, the agency has started to release more data. A fact sheet posted Friday ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff Nemeth wasn’t one of them. He and his son harvested a 503-pound ...