The bear populations are growing fast.
The larger male bears in good eating areas push out the junior male bears. The envelope of ‘bear country’ is expanding.
Message on news last night as to the coyote cocerns was basically - 'nothing we can do about it - they won't bother you. . .if they come close, just wave arms make noise' etc. (works for bears too. . .) and of course, just be aware if you have 'small pets'.
Sounds like the 'safe play yard' is no longer and that many families now have 'frontier' fears. Report was surely biased to the coyote and concerns reduced to the innocuous.