Florida hunters bagged their biggest trophy in memory Aug. 13 when state wildlife officials voted to that will resume an annual black bear hunting season.

At the conclusion of more than two and half hours of public testimony nearly evenly divided between proponents and opponents, commissioners voted 5–0 to hold the state's first black bear season in a decade. It'll take place over 23 days in December.

County commissioners and sheriffs from Gulf, Liberty, Jackson, Bay and Franklin County led off public testimony, giving a thumbs up to the FWC's plan to hold a bear season at the end of the year.

They all said a growing bear population has become a problem with bears increasingly wandering into neighborhoods.

Franklin County Commissioner Ottice Amison said residents in the coastal county

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