A woman captured the moment her dog had a tense interaction with a black bear checking out her home in Naples, Florida, in late October.

She was 28 years old and dealt with aplomb the hordes of picture-taking tourists and repeated motherhood. When she was killed by a car a few weeks ago, the loss ...

Bordered to the south by the Yellowstone and Lamar river basins, the Northern Range contains about 20 black bears for every 62 square miles (100 square kilometers) of terrain. In comparison, most ...