The primary thrust of the campaign is to help people manage their garbage and bird feeders in ways that are less likely to attract bears. These are valuable lessons, but also convenient for the state, because they deflect bear complaints back onto the complainant, or the complainant’s neighbors, rather than on the state policies that have effectively stocked the woods with bears. Telling people to change their behavior is far cheaper than investing in an effective trapping and relocation process (for the bears, not the owners).
