Bears should NOT be eating human food or garbage. In fact, it is illegal to feed any bear in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

The four-state mountain region that includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to an estimated 14,500 black bears, but one particular animal had caught the attention of a watchful police ...

Wildlife authorities in Tennessee euthanized three habituated bears after a woman encountered an aggressive bear. Discussions focus on human-bear conflict prevention and the need for statewide ...

Two baby black bears were having a playful furry fight in front of a Gatlinburg, Tennessee, home on April 6. The cub siblings ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranked second overall, but it is the top park in the nation to see amphibians, slugs & snails and spiders & scorpions, according to Kühl. The Smokies are home ...

Black bears are ... Chattanooga in 2020, and bear sightings have occurred in recent years in other unusual places, including Red Bank and the town of Signal Mountain. "They start roaming and ...

At my home near the border of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, I see migrating and breeding birds, wild turkeys ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranked as No ... If you're in Gatlinburg with the hope of seeing an iconic black bear, the park ranked No. 3 in animal sightings for mammals.