I commend the Chilkat Valley News on its sidebar explaining what a “habituated” bear is—the term is often misunderstood. To recap, habituation is a process where an animal’s or person’s response to a particular stimulus becomes neutralized over time based on past experience. Habituation is neither good nor bad, and it is an ongoing process. A bear’s response to people may continue to change as its experience with people changes.
Problems occur when bears…