MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday announced preliminary results for the 2024 bear season. This fall, bear hunters harvested 4,285 bears during the five-week ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ... new estimates of black bear reproductive rates within each bear management zone and improve the accuracy of the population models used to manage ...

The DNR's black bear litter and diet survey will inform bear management in Wisconsin. The agency intends to place GPS collars on 100 bear sows and study cub survival as part of the work.

The hearings allow DNR staff and Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegates to hear from the public about issues of local ...

In fact although he held a 2024 bear tag for Zone D and could have hunted for bear on his land, he opted to sit out the Wisconsin bear season. "I'll probably always hunt but now as I get older and ...