So, by removing any food source you will drastically reduce but not eliminate the chance that a bear will make a visit to your residence. Keeping your garbage within a closed structure until garbage collection day, taking your bird feeders down every night and cleaning up the excess bird feed will go a long way. Another bear attractant especially during the summer months is barbecue grills, try to keep your grills clean and free of grease and place them within a closed structure if possible. There is a pamphlet available from the PA Game Commission titles Living with Black Bears in Pennsylvania and this has a lot of information concerning Black Bears. Wildlife can become a nuisance when it comes to protection your yard, garden, flowers, and shrubbery from being eaten or damaged.
Some people attempt to correct the problem by trapping wildlife in a live trap.
Trapping wildlife is not going to help you situation completely and this only is a short-term solution. Wildlife had adapted very well to live among us and to deal with us. When trapping wildlife you have the chance to trap species of wildlife that you did not intent to making it difficult to release the animal such as Skunks for example. When trapping wildlife, there also is the threat of human contact with the animal when are you are trying to release the animal from a trap. Trapping of wildlife can also put a tremendous amount of stress on the animal in which could result in death.