Keeping a camp as clean as possible is for sure a good idea just on general principal. But when it comes to bears you're fooling yourself if you think you can avoid contact. You spit on the ground in July and a bear smells in in spring of next year.
I've been in bear country all my lifewith 25+ years down in Kakwa and Willmore in some of the highest bear densities found in the west.
Almost without exception I've been left alone by grizzlies ( lost one elk quarter off a quad because of my laziness) but have found that any black bear that comes into camp will become a problem.
These bears need to be removed from the gene pool. I'm not a bear hunter because I have to deal with the odd bad one over the years and that's good enough for me but I encourage my bear hunting buddies to remove bears from around my camp. I believe that helps.
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