Alaska
If you live in Alaska, you have to get used to seeing bears all over the place. There are brown bears, black bears, grizzly bears, and even polar bears have started turning up. These bears are not domesticated, but nearly never attack humans, being more interested in looking for scraps of food.
The bears are often drawn to the city because they are hungry, and they need to eat as much as they can to build up their fat reserves, which they need to survive the winter. Winters this far north can last up to eight months, and it gets very cold.
As with any place where humans live, rubbish collects, and up here, people leave this rubbish lying around on street corners, where it rots. The smell of discarded food is often too much for bears to resist, and this can often cause problems between bears and humans.
Recently there has been another problem. There have been many forest fires which have caused bears to break into homes at the edge of the city. Many families wake up to loud noises in their kitchens, and come down to find bears attacking their refrigerators.
The only solution that works with this problem is to capture the bears and transport them to new habitats far away from humans. Unfortunately, as soon as you send one bear away, another turns up, so the whole process has to be repeated. Every effort is made not to harm the bears in any way.
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