Black Bears Big Bend National Park U S National Park Servi Black bears in big bend. sometime during the late 1980s, a female black bear from the sierra del carmen in northern mexico started a journey. she descended from the mountains, crossed miles of desert, swam across the rio grande, and traversed more desert to reach the forested slopes of the chisos mountains in big bend national park. A female mexican black bear and her two cubs wake from an afternoon nap and saunter away into the chisos mountains of big bend national park.
Observe The Posted Speed Limits Bear Cub At Big Bend National Park First was the establishment of big bend national park in 1944 (previously known as texas canyons state park in 1933) which would later grow to provide nearly a million acres of protected habitat for wildlife to enjoy. second, a legally protected status in texas afforded black bears the chance to survive beyond the borders of the national park. By the time big bend national park was established in 1944, “few or no black bears occurred in the park’s chisos mountains or any other mountain range in west texas,” says raymond skiles, the park’s wildlife biologist. but something wickedly unusual happened in the 1980s. every now and then, hikers in the chisos mountains reported bear. Black bears (ursus americanus eremicus) are native to southern texas but were extirpated in the 1950s from their home range just as this region (covering over 324,000 hectares) was dedicated as big bend national park. News release date: april 16, 2009. no visitor has ever been attacked or hurt by a black bear at big bend. recommendation: leave shoes outside tents or in bear boxes if camping in high chisos backcountry sites. in december, a black bear destroyed 3 unoccupied tents in the colima canyon area of the high chisos (above 7,000 feet).