Huge numbers of urban dwellers do not know that.
To them, bears are wonderful individuals, kinda like nice humans in a furry suit.
I call it Disneyfication.
In many states, those people are a majority. It is how California passed the ban on mountain lion hunting in 1990.
It is how the state management of wolves and bears are stopped with judicial fiat.
It is ignorant and insane, but it is the mindset of tens of millions of Americans.
People’s first response to danger nowadays seems to be whipping out a smartphone & uploading it somewhere.
Thanks for another great article.