My wife spends lots of money feeding the birds. We get boxes with mealy worms in them. Delivered by FedEx. In addition, she has me pick up 50# bags of sunflower seeds at Tractor Supply.
I started hunting again after a ten plus year hiatus. I had to practice. Since then I have bought two additional rifles. A 30.06 and a muzzle loader. I was previously using a Winchester 30-30. Prior to that at my previous house a 16 gauge shot gun.
I put up a deer stand at the back of my property. It got crushed by a falling tree. I put up another deer stand.
I have bought bags of corn and several deer blocks. I have yet to kill a deer. Mostly out of choice. I could have shot countless does and a couple spike bucks.
I did shoot a six point buck with the 30-30 last November. A solid broad side kill shot from only 100 feet away. He did a front flip, flailed around and then got up and staggered away out of site into some brush. I waited in my stand for about a half hour. Got down and walked over to where I though he would be lying dead. However, I NEVER found him. I looked for three hours with the help of my wife. I even thought about bringing in a tracker with dogs.
There are so many deer here in southern NH that they have now extended the days you can take a doe from two to four days. They are also allowing you to purchase an extra tag for an additional fee.
I went to my in laws on Saturday night for dinner. When we arrived my mother in law told us to be quiet. That there were two small deer in their back yard. She feeds them. They live on a small lot in a suburban neighborhood. This seems to be very common now. People feed deer year round. Which means they also attract bears, coyotes, fishers, raccoons, etc. In addition, having a back yard chicken coop has become the fun thing so many new people love to do when they buy their first house in the suburbs/country. My daughter and son in law did it. Raved about the fresh eggs. First the raccoon tried to get in. Then the coyote. Then the bobcat. Finally the bear absolutely demolished their chicken coop and killed the last two chickens.
It is unreasonable to frame a bear's actions as "fault". Bears do not have moral agency. They are animals. They do not recognize human morality, human laws, human property or anything else which might allow them to be "at fault". They do what do through instinct and what they have learned in their lifetime. Some small amount of behavior is passed from one generation to the next.
Bears have strong instincts to seek out and eat as much as possible.
If they do not learn to avoid humans, they invariably conflict with humans, because humans are a major source food on the planet.