The estimate of 3000 is probably way too low. A young girl was attacked by one recently in East Point.
vob
Here in Alaska, we got bear everywhere. I usually have 20 different bear/day hitting my stand on game cam. They come back every 5-6 hours, wait in line at my barrel. When I quit hunting, stop rebaiting barrel, after 2-3 days they follow my 4 wheeler track back to my house a mile away. I guess they figure they want to see where the eats come from. My dogs run them off when they come walking towards house. If we don’t shoot 5-10 a year; they are at the house all the time. They seem to know when you are not home and that’s when they break in. You have to keep their numbers down, or you will be shooting one inside the house sooner or later and cleaning up garbage, blood and poop and stink. Twice I have had blk bear put the sneak on me. They come in real slow with their front quarters down, butt high, ears goin back and forth like crazy; they are thinking food actually. That will start happening back east too if they don’t get some sense about it.
Agreed. When I was a kid growing up in N Fla you never heard about anybody even seeing a bear much less an attack. Now nobody hunts them and they have flourished just like in GA. We have too dang many of them and they have lost their inate fear of man.