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In early May 2025, 89-year-old Robert Markel and his dog were killed by a black bear in Florida. This incident marked the ...
R ENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Nevada’s black bear hunt has long been a point of controversy. While the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) asserts that the annual hunt is an essential conservation ...
Heather Reich, a co-author and former bear biologist with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, noted that black bears have been reestablishing in the region since about 1980.
Black bears have become a regular part of the terrain in many parts of the United States. Their population growth and ...
Black bears are the only bear species in the state and human encounters with them are increasingly common, but people being injured by them is rare. A North Lake Tahoe woman came face to face with ...
A 24-year-old man survived a rare bear attack while out on a run in the Sierra Nevada earlier this week. The attack happened on Monday at approximately 5 p.m. on North Fork Road in Long Barn, an ...
The number of human-black bear interactions is surging nationwide, with 18 state wildlife agencies reporting an increase in 2022, researchers said.
As Northern Nevada’s growing population of black bears looks for places to create dens to spend the coming winter, it’s all about location, location, location. And, like their human neighbors, the ...