Bears

Spring weather means Vermont’s black bears are coming out of hibernation — and they’re hungry. That’s been an issue in recent years because biologists say the animals are increasingly associating people with food.

This hour, host Mikaela Lefrak speaks with a game warden and a biologist from Vermont's Fish and Wildlife Department about human-bear encounters.

If you've been seeing more black bears than usual, you're not alone. With a pandemic keeping Vermonters indoors, and a black bear population stressed by a…

Spotting a bear in a Vermont town isn't really newsworthy, but it appears that at least some of Vermont's bears are feeling emboldened by Governor Scott's…

An attack by bear hunting hounds has some lawmakers looking at changing the regulations around the practice of hunting bears with dogs.Last month, a…

The bears are back in town. They've been spotted lumbering around Vermont cities, college campuses and in suburban and rural backyards. Whenever bears…

There is currently a study going on in the Green Mountain National Forest investigating the impact of wind turbines on black bear use of important…

Summer offers Vermonters a great chance to get closer to nature. But sometimes nature gets a bit too close to us. With black bear sightings in the state…