Black Bears Pros And Cons

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• Paraphrased Note: Thomas Eason, a “director of the commission's Division of Habitat and Species Conservation” said, “We now have healthy populations, expanding populations of bears in most parts of the state,” and “We're now having to figure out how to manage that success, which is where hunting and other measures come into play for use." (“No Longer Threatened”)
• “Florida declared black bears a threatened species in 1974...” (“No Longer Threatened”)
• “The state outlawed bear hunting in 1994.”(“No Longer Threatened”)
• “Florida took bears off its threatened list in 2012.”(“No Longer Threatened”)
• Paraphrased Note: The Wildlife Commission spoke on behalf of black bears stating, “It's possible at least 4,000 bears might call Florida home.