No kidding.
I’d rather live around the grizzlies. You can predict their behavior, and they will make a lot of noise getting into your house—which would be rare. Plus most of the time you can avoid them or entice them with food to be distracted
The main reason is they don’t carry glocks illegally modified to be fully automatic with legal parts sold on eBay.
I do remember they were down to 800. The same report suggested they were most populous in the LA area meaning the preferred places that people found popular.