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Good News Bears

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A black bear in Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Cindy Callahan, courtesy of National Park Service)

Black bears were once wiped out from the area that’s now Big Bend National Park. Usually, when a species disappears from a place, restoring it requires tremendous human intervention. But in recent decades, bears have come back to the park on their own. How did this happen? And what’s the outlook for the future of black bears here?