>>2654999>But that's quite a lot when you consider that it's a small portion of the population that will be in an area with black bear in the first place.It's much greater than you think. Black Bears (unlike Grizzlies) live near many heavily populated areas of the country. Frederick, Maryland isn't some kind of remote wilderness.
Black Bears are far more commonly a nuisance, causing damage to property and livestock. From 1980-2011 there were 7 injuries and 1 fatality in NY State from Black Bear attacks (
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/bearsopm.pdf, page 11). This is despite a significant population of people both living and /out/ing in the Adirondacks and Catskills. They are encountered all the time. But most interactions do not escalate.
