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"Except in cases of overpopulation, killing bears and other critters is not the goal - conditioning them to be afraid of man again is."

I assume you know you are not speaking for many in America?

Other than PETA trash and assorted, sordid, AgencyPersons whose jobs depend on the putative "endangered" status of some critter, there are many who see bears as rug-to-be, panthers as threats to their children, etc.

Historically, the only way to "condition" a large bodied predator so that it was afraid of humans - WAS that the mother predator knew, and taught to the young predators, that man was the pinnacle predator.

Proof of this is that from 1880 to 1980, there were only a handful (that means less than five, LIBRARDS!) of panthers killing humans. Then humans were not allowed to kill panthers.

Now there is a panther attacking a human every 7.8 months.

For the PETA mentalities, that is well over an order of magnitude (look it up) increase in attacks and it is a result of removing the only fear predators recognize - death by firearm if seen by a human.

Read The Yellowstone Nature Book, by Milton P. Skinner (1924), page 109.

OPS Skinner was the first Roosevelt Naturalist in Yellowstone, and widely respected as knowledgeable.