Natural Resources Conservation Service State Conservationist Homer Wilkes (from left), Hunter Fordice and NRCS Chief Dave White hold a poster showing a bear and cub in front of the tree where it was taken.
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Though seldom seen by human eyes, more black bears are calling Mississippi home, biologists say.
The state's black bear population has soared in the past decade, growing from 40 to 120, elevating the species to an icon of the Mississippi Delta.
Here in Issaquena County, they occasionally are spotted along roads or rustling up bee hives, and residents say they want to see them flourish. ...