A huge black bear designated M18 broke a record for heaviest bear in the history of the Black Bear Program. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks was over the moon with the ...

Black bears were all but wiped out in Mississippi about 100 years ago and as a result, protections for the fragile population were put in place and a bear program was developed to help understand the ...

A black bear's journey through Mississippi highlights the state's growing bear population, which has rebounded from near extinction in the 1930s. Mississippi's bear population has increased to at ...