These individuals may be truly wild animals looking for suitable habitat or mates ... known as the Louisiana black bear, have also been reported in parts of East Texas over the years.

Thousands of black bears moseyed across Texas until the 1950s, when they vanished from the state, victims of overhunting and habitat destruction ... a golf cart.” (A bear ate the leather ...

Officials near Alpine, Texas, issued a warning for residents in April regarding sightings of a black bear in the area ... wildlife habitat loss and resource shortages as a result of urbanization ...

Residents in Texas are currently on bear watch after officials received multiple reports of black bear activity in neighborhoods South of Alpine. The Texas Parks and Wildlife-Trans-Pecos Wildlife ...