An 11-year-old girl in Wisconsin may have just set the record for the largest black bear ever harvested in the state. Naiya Iraci, 11, hadn’t ever even seen a black bear before Sept. 9, let ...

Wisconsin bear hunters harvested 2,922 bears during the 2023 black bear season, a decrease from the 4,009 bears taken by hunters last year and annual average of 4,000.

The Wisconsin DNR preliminary reports say 4,285 were harvested during the five-week season, a rebound from the below-average harvest of 2,922 bears taken during last fall's bear season.

The fall bear hunting season in Wisconsin was a success with most management zones meeting or exceeding harvest expectations. The Wisconsin DNR reports a successful 2024 Bear season this fall ...

The Natural Resources Board approved a harvest quota of 4,440 black bears for the 2021 Wisconsin hunting season, ... The 2021 Wisconsin bear hunting season runs Sept. 8 to Oct. 12.

MADISON, Wis. - The application deadline for Wisconsin's 2025 black bear and turkey hunting seasons is less than a week away, and the state Department of Natural Resources has a number of ...

At just 11 years old, Naiya Iraci is already an established hunter, harvesting deer and turkeys. Now, the Kewaskum sixth-grader can add a 700+ pound black bear to her resume.

Hunters registered 3,679 bears in the 2019 Wisconsin season, according to the DNR, on par with 2018 but the lowest in a decade that included a state-record bear kill of 5,133 in 2010.

“It’s also the largest black bear at the convention and the largest taken since I believe 2015.” Foster, 45, harvested his bear on Sept. 8 during the third day of the state’s fall black bear season.

More than 135,000 hunters applied for about 12,000 bear harvest ... But now it appears that a high proportion of many black bear’s diets in northern Wisconsin is now composed of supplemental ...

ELK MOUND – Coulee Region residents can expect to see more black bears in the future. Wildlife officials say Wisconsin’s black bear population may be twice or three times larger than ...