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Worldly, sophisticated bears in well-travelled parts of Yosemite know what those freeze-dried food packets are. … If so - the bears ignored the remnants of food in a well-sealed unhung garbage bag - they are unlikely to go after factory-sealed freeze dried food. …

I'm answering from personal experience, which although extensive, is of course limited: limited to black bears, limited to the Sierra and to the Rockies and to a lesser degree, Shenandoah, and limited … In our early days, before bear canisters were ubiqutous and in the era when hanging food was the norm, bears got into our food several times when we were camped. …

Similarly, if a person is travelling in bear country, it makes sense for him/her to learn about the behaviour of the bears of the region and behave like a guest in their country. … Yet many of the bear questions on this site assume that bears are trespassing on the hiker or camper's turf, when arguably it is the person who is trespassing on ursus's turf. …

A woman in a semi-rural Maryland neighborhood was injured by a black bear sow a day or two ago. See The Washington Post. She heard a dog barking, went out with her dog on a leash to investigate and …

How can food be properly stored against black bears on a long (say 14 day) backpacking trip at least partly in black bear country? … In the Sierra, with black bears, we have dug into snow banks to store food where there were no good bear-bagging trees available. …

I recently talked with a young geologist, some of whose field work is in the Arctic. We mostly talked about the science, but the geologist mentioned being certified (not sure of this word) to act as a …

The bears stopped at a layer of very dirty clothes near the bottom of my pack, and so missed the last package of freeze-dried food, which was a reserve. … For Sierra black bears, the snow bank trick works. We have no experience with brown bears. …

I am hoping for more than anecdotal evidence about the negative effects on black bears of the human scent -- ranging from meh to Yecch. … I am asking specifically about black bears, but would welcome answers about other predators at or near the top of the food chain. …

In more than forty years of hiking several times a year in the Sierra in Yosemite and in the vicinity of Yosemite, we have encountered black bears ten or fifteen times. … I can't say anything about mountain lions or much about Colorado bears. …

Our guides have years of experience around coastal brown bears and they're constantly assessing the situation to put the group's safety first. … At locations where bears are not accustomed to seeing people, we may consider a firearm in addition to bear spray (emphasis added). …

Your camp is in an area where European brown bears are at least perceived to be a danger to humans, and you need to keep your customers, most of them not at all outdoorsy types, not only safe, but worry-free … I can speak from personal experience only about black bears in the Sierra and the Colorado Rockies; there your precautions would seem -- sorry to be impolite -- weird. …

They smell somewhere between yecch and meh (4) The tourists are taken to places where the bears have an abundance of food. (5) The bears do not associate people with food. … A more general answer about protecting clients who are on a guided tour against brown bears would also be useful. …