Like so many parents, I was shocked and saddened to learn that my children’s beloved elementary school made the list of proposed closures. At their best, schools provide not only a platform to learn ...

As a boy in the 1950s, I went on several bear hunts in the swamps near Avery Island and have since become an advocate for our official state mammal. In 1987, at the urging of U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

There were conservation efforts to help bring back the Louisiana black bear from their endangered status so that hunters could kill them. How noble. Ironic that lottery fees to kill these bears are ...

Thank you for your editorial regarding HB 87: “Bill is bad news for bears – and for people.” On Jan. 30 the bill took a turn for the worse with the adoption of an amendment that extends the right to ...

Another bear was killed due to people in the area failing to secure their garbage, endangering every living thing, including (especially) the bear. Pure selfishness on the part of the residents. The ...