Several months ago I read an article about a bear that managed to open a food box, and not through brute force. Unfortunately, I can’t find a link to the article. Seems that the boxes are double locked and somehow the bear figured it out. The Natural Resource guys somehow identified the bear. I think it was in the Adirondacks.
They are smart animals. If anyone can find a link please post it.
See Post 56.
Thanks. That’s what I was looking for but my search-Fu failed me.
Carry on.
And what about we Ontarians who live in bear country? 
Really, anywhere in the Shield country is bear country, even along main roads and in the smaller towns. One tried to get in the skylight of my friends’ house; the dogs woke them from sleep and were ready to attack, had the bear made it inside. (And you thought we kept huskies and built thick walls for the insulation value…)
You learn to llive near them, basically by leaving them alone. A wise landowner will learn where they go (and all the other animals like moose, deer, etc), and will not feed them human food, but will do things like leaving that patch of berry bushes for the bears, don’t go near them, and keeping this patch of berry bushes for human use.
Like what? The half-eaten corpses of prior campers? 
Well, at Yosemite, they said they have to redesign the mechanism for the bear boxes every few years because the bears eventually figure out how to open them.
And thanks, Twoflower. That’s good to know. 