Preliminary numbers indicate bear kill below harvest target
Michigan DNR
November 2, 2018
In 2017, 1,691 bears were taken. This year, preliminary numbers appear to be slightly below the 1,500-target harvest.
Black bears
For first time, no ear-tagged, radio-collared research bears killed during hunting season
Minnesota DNR Reports
October 22, 2018
Researchers with the DNR are monitoring about 30 radio-collared black bears across the state, and asked hunters to voluntarily avoid shooting these valuable research subjects. They obliged.
N.J. hunt culls 139 bears over 6 days, a steep drop from last year
Associated Press
October 15, 2018
TRENTON, N.J. — A total of 139 bears were killed during the first six-day period of New Jersey’s annual black bear hunt, as expected a steep drop from last year’s total following restrictions imposed by
Is a hunt the answer when bears start getting bolder?
Associated Press
September 28, 2018
CANTON, Conn. — Tom Bradley had grown accustomed to seeing black bears walk through his Connecticut neighborhood, but this month he was alarmed to find something trying to turn a doorknob to enter his house.
Pennsylvania bear managers bracing for overflow New Jersey bears to relocate here
Jeff Mulhollem
September 10, 2018
After New Jersey governor bans bear hunting on state property, Pennsylvania Game Commission expects “visitors.”
Hunters asked not to shoot ear-tagged, radio-collared research bears
Minnesota DNR Reports
August 21, 2018
With the bear hunting season set to begin Saturday, Sept. 1, the Minnesota DNR asks that hunters avoid shooting research bears marked with distinctively large, colorful ear tags and have radio-collars. Researchers with the DNR
Lack of food, dry weather chasing black bears in Arkansas
Associated Press
August 10, 2018
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Black Bear sightings in the Twin Lakes Area are increasing due to a lack of food, according biologist Allen Cathey with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Normally, sightings of the
Suit: Renewed federal protection needed for Louisiana black bears
Associated Press
July 13, 2018
Even 700 bears for today’s population is an overestimate, because it counts a different subspecies of black bears brought from Minnesota in the 1960s for sport hunting, the lawsuit contends.
Relocated bear travels 70 miles, likely in search of cubs
Associated Press
July 9, 2018
HANOVER, N.H. — A bear that was relocated to northern New Hampshire a week ago after she and her cubs were raiding trash bins and bird feeders near Dartmouth College in Hanover is on the
