If it’s like it is in Tennessee, the berries aren’t good this season and the mast doesn’t look good either...
Black bears are known to roam around 20-30 miles a day looking for food...
(Still a little early to tell for sure about the mast crop though...)
http://www.wvdnr.gov/wildlife/magazine/archive/01fall/The_Bear_Necessities.shtm
Tasty steaks!
We’ve had that problem here (northern NJ, close to the NY border) every so often; unusually dry weather causes a shortage of berries, and they wander into populated areas looking for food.
As they aren’t endangered, I don’t know why they bother relocating them...
Sister lives up at Pigeon Forge, works for a lodge, idiots despite all kinds of warning signs feed them, try to pet them (kids) take photos, leave trash on their cabin porches, and Bears are dumpster divers.
Not allowed to hunt them. So if one bites a stupid kid or visitor it gets put down, not just relocated. You provide a convenient food source you will keep finding them, and with man growing his space, they have less places to go to hunt the natural foods they’d eat.
Ditto goes for deer coming across a hwy from a small wooded area.
We live on the opposite end of TN, Atoka, just outside Memphis, rural, so we see armadillos, possums, skunks, snakes, tics, moles in our yards or as road kill. Once in while a deer.