>> "How do they get near without getting attacked and driven away?" The National Park service usually assigns the bear manager a herd of Jackalope when camping

>> "How do they get near without getting attacked and driven away?" The National Park service usually assigns the bear manager a herd of Jackalope when camping with the bears. These Jackalopes distract the bears from the presence of the humans. While this approach is very effective in National Parks such as Yellowstone, problems have recently arisen in other Grizzly-inhabited areas, notably near the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat wildernesses, due to declining Jackalope populations. Efforts are underway to replace the Jackalope herds with a single baby moose, or in some cases as many as three baby meese, but I can't vouch for the efficacy of this technique.