For about the first thirty years I was going to Kodiak, AK, I never saw a bear while fishing anywhere around the road system. In the more recent 16 Moose & Goose has cracked down on ranchers, deer hunters and other locals keeping them shot down and now they are everywhere. I've been run out of fishing spots and they have been in our yard right in town.

[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

Authorities shot rubber bullets at this young guy several times as he wandered the neighborhoods, and finally shot him when he went on the grade school grounds.