re: Black bear

That LA doesn't have a bear season is absolutely baffling to me.

The #1 benefit of having a bear season, even a limited or lotteried one, is that the majority of the bears that get killed are the ones that aren't afraid of humans. The ones that smell you a mile away and keep their distance are the ones that survive. Over time, you end up with a population of shy bears, instead of a population of bold bears. Look at North Carolina. In the National Park, there is no hunting season. That's where all the bear attacks occur annually. On the national forest land, where hunting is legal, zero bear attacks in many many years. Not because there's no bears there, there certainly are, but they have learned not to FAFO.