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We do so every year. No big deal. No need to be a drama queen about it. Bears exist. They go through all kind of areas every day.

We do so every year. No big deal. No need to be a drama queen about it. Bears exist. They go through all kind of areas every day.

Yep. Happens regularly here. This past October we had one making the rounds to clean up the fruit tree drops. Young male, tagged, about 140lbs and appeared to be about three years old.

It wasn't aggressive and was fattening up for winter (25,000 calories a day). Just pay attention and back off slowly. Affordable motion sensors are very helpful to avoid confrontations.

I wish the local game commission would do an educational add blitz about feeding bears. "If you feed the bear, you will kill the bear" or something like that. We had problems a couple years ago with people feeding them and making them aggressive.

I am still amazed how big the black bear nose is. The change from a black coat to a very large brown nose is something to marvel over.