Texas officials have confirmed black bear sightings in East Texas. In a press release on Thursday, Aug. 21, biologists with ...

Multiple sightings of black bears have been reported this month across East Texas. Sightings have been confirmed in Cherokee, ...

Whatever you do East Texas, don’t go on a bear hunt. Don’t go looking in caves, don’t go walking in tall grass. Leave your ...

"There are no resident populations of black bears in East Texas, and TPWD has not and does not stock bears in East Texas," ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas — A game camera in Anderson County captured footage of an unexpected visitor -- a black bear -- on ...

A black bear was spotted on a game camera in southern Anderson County this week. Texas Parks and Wildlife Biologist Reuban Gay said he has been tracking the bear's movements through Cherokee, Rusk, ...

As a result, sightings in east Texas have been on the rise, up from just five in the 1980s to 54 in the 2000s.

Texas Parks and Wildlife would like nothing better than see black bears return to East Texas, where they once made a home. Bears have not roamed the Piney Woods since the 1950s.

Gilbert Adams, a fifth-generation landowner in East Texas, delights at the thought of spotting a black bear in the Piney Woods. "Bears are so much part of this area's history and tradition," said ...

This bear, scavenging on Don 'Dink' Benton's ranch in northeast Texas near the Oklahoma border, is among a few dozen sighted in East Texas in the last decade. CLARKSVILLE, Texas - Before hunting ...

Biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have confirmed multiple black bear sightings in Cherokee, Anderson, ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife said several black bear sightings have been confirmed across the counties of Anderson, Rusk, Panola, ...