HOW DANGEROUS ARE BLACK BEARS AT A GARBAGE DUMP? ANSWER: NOT VERY.

Clink for Herrero black bear garbage dump paper

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This paper by Stephen Herrero from the 70’s details his observations of 34 bears in over 700 encounters with humans and other bears at a garbage dump in Jasper.  It’s worth a read because Herrero is an expert on adverse bear/human encounters.  And it’s a bit of faded history since garbage dumps are no longer available to bears as they were in this paper, in Yellowstone during the same era and elsewhere.