Colorado rural area solves its chronic bear problem simply.
All they had to do was stop feeding them! It would seem obvious, but it seems to have taken 40 years to figure it out.
Read about it in the Summit Daily News.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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That article requires a subscription. I would like to hear more about this if anyone can fill me in.
That’s odd. When I first posted it, a subscription page didn’t come up. Maybe it was one of those web site’s that have free stories up for only a few hours as teasers before then move them. Ralph Maughan
Here is a link to the communitie’s website:
http://crystal-lakes.org/bearaware/
This sounds like something my area could use. The problem isn’t as chronic as Crystal Lake’s but bears do occasionally get into garbage around here.