From what I understand, the bear population in that neck of the woods (and i do mean WOODS lol) has seemingly sky rocketed. (which is both good and bad) So far that bear was the only one to have caused any problems.

Something I'd like to point out, (just cause I think it's pretty neat ), no new houses have been built in that area for at least 15-20 yrs! The "kids" move on to the cities and the "parents/grandparents" stay in the house(s) they were raised in. (My grandpa, for example, lives in the oldest house in the valley. It use to serve as a hotel as it was the only ''stoppin' place'' between two of the "larger" cities--this was back in the horse/buggy days. Grandpa moved into that house when he was 2--at age 92 (93 in Nov.) he still lives there! Pretty neat!)