Select one of two time slots to learn about black bears in our region

Interested in one of Missouri’s largest mammals? Then it’s time to get the “bear” facts in this all-ages informal talk presented by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Topics will include biofacts, bear habitat and diet. Before European settlement, black bears thrived in Missouri. But by 1850, they had become rare may have been completely eliminated from the state by the 1930s. But in 1958, a resurgence occurred when a conservation program introduced Arkansas bears across the state line. The population now numbers in the hundreds, with the vast majority of them living in Missouri’s forested southern regions. However, they occasionally stray – sometimes all the way to Pleasant Hill and Grandview, Mo.

Cost Free

• 10 a.m. session Registration is required and seating is limited

• 1 p.m. session Walk-ins welcome, no registration is required.