My uncle who has lived in Alaska since 1972 or so sent me this story of a rogue black bear’s recent activity in their area.
“What isn’t normal is having a problem black bear in the neighborhood. One night it pushed open a front door a half mile away and stuck it’s head inside before a very startled guest of the owners yelled and scared it away. It got into an outbuilding a mile or so away and ripped up a bunch of bulk food stuffs (flour, coconut, all sorts of stuff). At the cabin downstream from us (only occupied about a week a year these days) the bear went through a window and made a huge mess of their kitchen area. At our place, one night it opened the freezer in our entryway and pulled out a bag of ice cubes, ignoring salmon, halibut, moose, caribou, etc. Then the next night it pulled up our locked shop/garage door, pulled out a closed plastic garbage can, carted it 50 feet away, and opened the unopened bag of dog food inside and gorged itself. The next night it was back to the shop again, but didn’t appear to go inside, perhaps because all possible goodies were now inside the house. A neighbor apparently wounded it soon after, but didn’t kill it. But we haven’t heard of any sign of it since.”
Barely knew him….