Mississippi is home to two types of black bears: the Louisiana black bear to the south and the American black bear in 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 ...

President Theodore Roosevelt, often known as Teddy, went on a bear hunting trip near Onward, Mississippi, in November 1902 with a group of notables. Though others on the excursion bagged bears ...