People don’t want bears destroyed because of other people’s neglect. If anything, they want them hazed or relocated—the two nonlethal approaches you hear about most with “conflict bears.” (There’s also electric fencing, but the prison-camp look doesn’t play well in residential areas.) Hazing refers to the practice of supplying a frightening or painful experience such that the animal associates the unpleasantness with the location or the behavior underway when it began, and then avoids such in the future. In the case of these two bears, you’d need to station someone here in the alley during the
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