When are the idiots in state and locl police nd fish/game agencies going to realize that bears are not normal inhabitants of settled suburban and exurban neighborhoods. These animals pose threats to humans, especially childen, and domestic animals. Especially female bares that have mothered cobs. Such animals need to be immediately knocked out and moved to a suitable wild area. If that can not be done, a state game warden or police officer should "euthanize" (kill) the animal. I recently reaad that the Massachusetts black bear population has risen from a few hundred to some 3,000 animals. This bureaucratic concern for animals runs the same idiotic bureaucracy track as the worries about keeping coyotes from being harmed - while the dam coyotes will harm as they will both dometic animals and children. Where is my BB gun?

What makes them not "normal" inhabitants in a particular area? Do you mean that human settlement in any geographic region automatically negates normalcy as it relates to any (potentially dangerous) species? If that's your dominionist worldview, then by all means take your BB gun and go hang out with some black bears. The rest of us will co-exist with nature in a reasoned fashion.

boatwrote, I'm trying to picture "a female bare mothering a cob". Quite a stunning vision. I can certainly see why you say that "such animals need to be immediately knocked out and moved to a suitable wild area". Perhaps a nude beach?

What he means is that he liked it better when there were no bears in the hood, no beavers ruining suburban back yards, no kitty cats being snacks for coyotes, and wildlife was what you saw on Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom." I liked it better that way, too, to be honest with you.