# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DG5988UytMA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27184546-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-07T17:01:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

As black bears continue to flourish across Florida, state wildlife officials are revisiting the possibility of an upcoming regulated bear hunt. ⁠
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The public will have an opportunity to weigh in on the options for the proposed hunt at a virtual public meeting on March 13. The state’s bear population has rebounded from just a few hundred bears in the 1970s to more than 4,000 as of 2023 — with the potential to reach more than 11,000 animals by 2026. Black bear season has been closed in Florida since 1994, with the exception of a conservative hunt in fall 2015.⁠
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#blackbear #blackbears #bear #bears #florida #hunting #huntingseason #outdoors #nature #outdoorlife #bearhunting⁠
📷: Tim Donovan / myfwc⁠
Story by: krebfish

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outdoors, nature, huntingseason, blackbears, bears, bear, hunting, outdoorlife, florida, bearhunting, blackbear

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