[mrmeyer]

I live in Northwest NJ, and have seen an increase in the number of black bears roaming my neighborhood in the last three years. I nearly tripped over one last semester after I came home from a night class. The garage light was off, and I thought my neighbor's black lab was walking near our garbage cans. Since then, I have made a habit of keeping bear mace in my car, and I also don't put out the garbage unless my good friend Glock is with me.

[Catspaw]

I'll have to ask my daughter if she's seen any black bear yet. She lives outside Princeton.