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BREAKING: Florida Approves First Black Bear Hunt in a Decade Amid Fierce Opposition and Legal Threats
FWC commissioners voted to unanimously approve hunt rules without amendment. They’re now set to take effect in September. Florida will then begin its first black bear hunt in a decade this December. Hunting dogs will be allowed in 2027.
Florida votes to bring back black bear hunting season: See where they will be harvested
Sixty-eight bears will be permitted for harvest from 11 eastern panhandle counties, including Franklin, Leon and Wakulla; 18 bears from 12 Central Florida counties; 46 from five North Florida counties; and 55 from Lee, Collier and Hendry counties. The wildlife commission approved the hunt to take place from Dec. 6 to Dec. 28.
FWC weighs in a recently killed black bear at the Rock Springs check-in station during Florida’s first bear hunt in more than four decades on Saturday, October 24, 2015.
Rep. Lindsay Cross, a St. Petersburg Democrat and an environmental scientist, is calling on the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
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