TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Floridians hoping to hunt bears during the state\u2019s 2026 regulated season will soon be able to apply for a limited bear harvest permit.<\/p>\n
Bear harvest permit applications open at 10 a.m. EDT on Sept. 11 and can be submitted through Sept. 21 at 11:59 p.m. A bear harvest permit is required to harvest a bear in one of four selected Bear Harvest Zones from Dec. 5-27. A hunting license is also required to hunt bears, unless exempt.<\/p>\n
Applicants must be at least 18 years old by Oct. 1 to apply. Applications cost $5 each, plus handling fees, and applicants may apply as many times as they want. Permits will be distributed by random drawing.<\/p>\n
Only one nontransferable permit may be issued per person. Permits will cost $100 for residents and $300 for nonresidents, plus handling fees. No more than 10% of all permits issued will be to nonresidents.<\/p>\n
Hunters can submit online applications at GoOutdoorsFlorida.com by logging into their account and choosing \u201cApply for Limited Entry\/Quota Permits,\u201d or they can complete an application worksheet and present it to a license agent or a Florida tax collector\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
More information on how to apply is available at MyFWC.com\/License by clicking on \u201cLimited Entry and Quota Permits.\u201d Details about bear hunting in Florida are available at MyFWC.com\/BearHunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Floridians hoping to hunt bears during the state\u2019s 2026 regulated season will soon be able…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-382395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}