I’m halfway through reading Mary Roach’s latest book, Fuzz, which is about wild animals that run afoul of the law and has a whole chapter on bear/human encounters and mitigations. It was disappointing to learn that relocation, while often successful in getting a bear out of a particular neighborhood, is very rarely successful if your metric is for the bear to thrive in its new location. The bears don’t know where to effectively find food, water, and shelter in their unfamiliar surroundings and often die within a year. The ones with Cubs very rarely do well.
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