There are black bears all over Florida especially from Lake Okeechobee north. The populations are very dense from Orlando north to Georgia and west into the panhandle. Anything written that suggests less is pure political propaganda. We kill over 100 bears by vehicles alone in central Florida each year and you can't put out a game camera from May thru August and not get bear pics. Also, the bears tend to be larger in Florida than elsewhere because bears don't hibernate and eat all year long.