With respect to the bears, some of the bears had become problem bears and interacted in negative ways with humans elsewhere when looking for food. In all, probably about 100 bears were killed because they were problem bears after the dump was closed. These national forests and managed lands are themselves surrounded by areas of human habitation. Bears are very large and need a lot of food, from diverse sources. They travel large distances to find it.
Habituated bears are unlikely to survive long enough to reproduce.
When a part of a population is no longer reproducing, it is no longer contributing to the next generation, and should not be included in the estimates of population size. What we really need to use is the number of bears that are not habituated. Habituated bears aren't reproducing and cannot be considered to contribute to the next generation. Then it looks as though their management techniques are good, and the bear is recovering from it's brush with extinction.