Its 5 a.m., I am sitting up in bed, I can’t sleep. I’m thinking about bears. The front page article in the Tribune pictures a mama bear trying to reach out to her babies. Her cubs had been trapped, ...

As a boy in the 1950s, I went on several bear hunts in the swamps near Avery Island and have since become an advocate for our official state mammal. In 1987, at the urging of U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Like so many parents, I was shocked and saddened to learn that my children’s beloved elementary school made the list of proposed closures. At their best, schools provide not only a platform to learn ...

The picture of the beautiful creature killed during the black bear hunt took my breath away from revulsion. Why does this state applaud such a murder? It's sickening. I worked to defeat the bill that ...