In my correspondence with Andy Timmins, he acknowledged that there was nothing built into the state’s bear management system that prioritized cases in which bears actually injured humans or dogs. “We are hesitant to call these ‘bear attacks,’ because we don’t view them as such,” he said. “However, physical contact between a bear and a person is not the norm, and we should probably be putting those events in a file.” He said that, after my inquiries, he intended to create a specific form that would capture “not-attacks” by bears.
