Amid a surge of applications for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, the state is reducing the number of black bears that can be taken in the controversial December event. State wildlife ...

FLORIDA (WMBB) – The application window for the 2025 bear hunt has officially closed. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation commissioners approved the controversial bear hunt during their August ...

Florida has reopened black bear hunting, and you are stepping into a fight that has only hardened since the last season a decade ago. Supporters frame the move as overdue wildlife management, while ...

Florida has seen the controversial return of legal black bear hunting for the first time in a decade, as hunters armed with rifles and crossbows began fanning out across the state's swamps and ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is opening permit applications for the first bear hunt in a decade. Beginning Friday at 10 am, the FWC will take applications online for a ...