If you're driving or camping in bear country, odds are good you'll get close to a bear. Just because you're inside a car ...

Most people imagine a bear encounter as loud and chaotic, yet real encounters unfold with startling speed. A bear reads ...

Last fall, black bears roamed in Dolores in noticeable numbers, rummaging through trash cans, walking along Central Avenue ...

As clashes between people and black bears continue to escalate, Colorado is calling on communities to help fix the problem.

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering $1 million in grants to help reduce human-bear conflicts as part of the Human-Bear Conflict Reduction Community Grant Program.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Conflicts between bears and humans continue to rise in many areas of Colorado, including the Front Range, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which is ...

Officials recommend that humans never approach or feed wild black bears, which number over 1,500 in the Gatlinburg area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Across the Arctic, one bear stands apart from all the others, not just in size but in how it looks at us. While most large carnivores treat people as a threat to avoid, this predator is one of the few ...

Officials in Gatlinburg, Tenn., warn that humans should always keep at least 150 feet between themselves and a wild bear A black bear wandered into Gatlinburg, Tenn.’s 50th Christmas parade on Dec. 8 ...