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Alaska’s Bear Hunting Season 2025: Here’s What You Need to Know

Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem management. With two native bear species—the brown (or grizzly) bear and the ...

Florida black-bear hunt exposes emotional divisions among animal-rights activists and hunters

Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff ...
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Everything You Should Know About Oregon’s Bear Hunting Season 2025

Oregon’s bear hunting season is beginning soon; what do you need to know about it? Rooted in conservation and sustainability, bear hunting in Oregon maintains its popularity and prevalence throughout ...

Controversy in the Sunshine State: Inside Florida’s Black Bear Hunt Backlash

Florida’s first state-sanctioned black bear hunt in a decade finished on December 28th, 2025. Arguments and backlash about ...
PBS

Bear Hunting, Deer Hunting

Chasing bear above the bridge and a special hunt for a very deserving veteran. This week we start above the bridge chasing bear! We also have a very special hunt for a very deserving Veteran. This ...
Yahoo

Bear hunt applicants face 1-in-1,000 chance of winning a December hunting permit

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a flood of applications, would-be Florida bear hunters have a one-in-a-thousand chance – the same as cracking open a ...
Orlando Sentinel

Judge rules that Florida’s bear hunt will go on next month

A judge in Tallahassee rejected Monday a plea from a Central Florida bear advocacy group to halt the state’s planned bear hunt. Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey ruled against Bear Warriors United after ...
WUFT

Florida’s black bear hunt, unpopular among residents, still scheduled

Florida’s black bear hunt is scheduled to go forward next month despite its unpopularity and a lack of recent population studies to know if the mammal’s numbers are in decline. The Florida Fish and ...
WESH

Florida’s first black bear hunt in nearly a decade ends amid ongoing controversy

WELL, TONIGHT MARKED THE FINAL DAY OF FLORIDA’S FIRST BLACK BEAR HUNT IN A DECADE. THIS YEAR’S HUNT, HOWEVER, WAS MET WITH PUSHBACK FROM GROUPS OPPOSED TO KILLING THOSE ANIMALS. WESH 2’S TONY ATKINS ...
Orlando Sentinel

After a decade off, Florida resumes bear hunting. Here’s what to expect.

Hunters will fan out across Florida beginning today as the first sanctioned hunt of black bears in a decade kicks off amid sharply divided public opinion and efforts by humane advocates to cajole — ...