DAVE WADDLES IS THE LEAD BLACK BEAR BIOLOGIST FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE. HE MONITORS THE STATE’S BEAR POPULATION, WHICH HAS BEEN GROWING FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS. WE NOW ...

There’s an American black bear who has been moving from home to home in California. It’s kind of like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but in the reverse, with the bear trying out three homes. The wild ...

The Louisiana black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, once almost disappeared from the state entirely. The black bear was named the official state mammal in 1992. By the late twentieth ...