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Florida’s black bear population is ballooning back from a population estimated at just 300 in the 1970s. The thriving population has since exploded tenfold to roughly 3,000- prompting removal from state’s list of threatened species in August of 2012. As a result, the number of incidents involving bears throughout the state is escalating and spreading into populated areas.
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