How Drought and Wildfire Could Bring Bears Back to Texas
A Black Bear spotted in Brewster County. Black bears in Texas are generally smaller than in other parts of the country. Photo courtesy of Ray Janiczek.By Mose Buchele, StateImpact Texas
There are hardly any bears in Texas, but it hasn’t always been that way. Black bears used to roam the state from the Piney Woods of the east to the mountain ranges of the far west.
Then American colonists arrived.
Bear hunting was “part of the hunting culture that early Texans enjoyed,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Diversity Biologist Jonah Evens told StateImpact Texas. “Eventually we wiped them out completely from the state.”
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