Archery season is reduced from three weeks to one week this year, as officials aim to boost participation in the November firearms season after years of declining bear harvests.

Bear hunting season is underway in Pennsylvania with more than 200,000 hunters expected in the field this year, though the state game commission expects just 3% of them will come home with a bear.

New Jersey’s 2025 black bear hunting season will be split into two segments — an archery season in October and a firearm season in December.

With bear season in Pennsylvania now underway in certain parts of the state, the Game Commission says the 2025 season should ...

In many situations when you ask how things are going, the answer is “same old, same old” – not bad perhaps, but not overly exciting either. When it comes to bear hunting in Pennsylvania, however, the ...

(WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is gearing up for archery bear hunting season, and they say no other Pennsylvania hunting season offers such a potentially big payoff as this one. According ...

This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The arrival of autumn has signaled the beginning of hunting season in West Virginia. Black bear firearms season is now open while archery and crossbow hunters are gearing up ...