Living With Bears - Kevin Van Tighem

Humans carry with them a lifetime of experience, earned from interactions with people and the world around them. Kevin Van Tighem says that bears learn in the exact same way. Any bear that has had positive, peaceful interactions with humans are likely to avoid people and saunter into the woods without conflict. But bears who have had encounters with people where we forced the bear to act out of fear are likely to have negative encounters with humans in the future. He writes in his book, Bears: Without Fear, that the key to peaceful man-bear relations is careful use of bear spray.