I’ve seen too many bears, brown and black, have to be euthanized because they got too acclimated to humans and there was no place or budget to relocate them. One was at Philmont, a brown bear that had learned hiker’s packs usually had food, or at least “smellables” such as toothpaste, deodorant, or scented toilet paper, and had returned from several relocations to as far as they could move it, but kept returning. The other was in upstate NY, a black bear that kept breaking into homes to get at the food, sometimes homes with people still in them.
Don’t feed the bears.
