The season started Dec. 6, making its return in Florida for the first time in a decade. Last December, FWC staff presented an update on black bears in the state to commissioners. In March 2025, a ...

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After a controversial and much-protested reopening of Florida’s black bear season in December, the state has released a harvest report for its first bear hunt in a decade. Overall, 52 bears were ...

A black bear sits in an oak tree at Lake Eola Park in the heart of downtown Orlando on June 4, 2023. Florida revealed more details about the December 2025 bear hunt. Roger Simmons Orlando Sentinel/TNS ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida held its first black bear hunt in over a decade last December, and the results are in. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sold 172 permits, with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half the bears killed during December's Florida bear hunt were from the state's Panhandle, but the biggest animal killed ...

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 ...

Florida's first bear hunt in a decade resulted in 52 bears killed over a 23-day season. More than half of the bears were taken from the state's Panhandle region. The largest bear killed was a ...