The Concho Valley region of Texas sits in the west-central part of state, significantly far removed from east Texas where Louisiana Black Bears have been recolonizing over the past few years.........The Bears have been absent from the Concho area for a good 100 years but seemingly are prospecting the region once again........... "One was killed along Centralia Draw in Reagan County in the early 1980s, and another in Menard County in 2009"............ "Also in 2009, one was seen in Glasscock County"............ "Several additional sightings and photographic evidence have come from Irion, Kerr and Kinney counties, apparently including a photograph from Irion County of a bear standing upright to feed at a deer feeder"................ "It is likely that black bears in and near the Concho Valley in recent years are from populations resident in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico"............ "The bears there are of the race Ursus americanus amblycepa, the same as found in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park"........................The historical records kept by Explorers vividly document the impact Black Bears had upon their sighting..............."In 1684, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza led an expedition into West-Central Texas from Paso del Norte (El Paso) to the Colorado River"................................. "On March 16 at a site that Mendoza called San Clemente (probably near Menard on the San Saba River), his journal reports that he saw bears"................... "The Marques de Rubi inspected the Presidio de las Amarillas on the San Saba River near Menard in the summer of 1767"........................ "He continued his inspection tour on toward San Antonio de Bexar, and when just about 30 miles from Menard, he had the excitement of roping a bear".................................. "I would think bear roping to be a pretty dicey sport, but those Spaniards didn't lack for pluck"................................. "In December 1864, Kickapoo Indians of the famed Dove Creek battle, field-dressed bears on the Colorado River"........................ "And so it goes — historic anecdotes of bears in and near the Concho Valley in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries"

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Black bears are  a past predator  for the Concho area

Contributed photo Illustration of a black bear by T.C. Maxwell.

 The bears are classified as carnivores, but they're basically omnivores.

The Concho Valley
of Texas with San
Angelo it's largest City