It had a stomach full of seeds from their birdfeeders. To lower the risk, bear season will open a week earlier this year. Visitors and tourists travel and line up for hours at the Vince Shute Bear Sanctuary. There, they can see 300-pound black bears up close, or up a tree. But volunteers here disagree about whether the bears are the problem.
Bears can live with humans.
They have to travel to find their food. They're not scared of us anymore. They become at ease to live in proximity. They'll live in downtown Duluth or any of the small towns around here. They become very comfortable.