Black bears are wild animals that are dangerous! They can and do kill people

1. Manitoba - 1982,
2. Tennessee - May 2000, Female hiker attacked, killed and partially consumed by a female, 112 pound bear and her 40 pound yearling, in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
3. Quebec - July 2000, bear attacked and killed Mary-Beth Miller, 24, a biathlete while on training run.
4. Northwest Territories - June 2001, Young male attacked and killed at rural campsite
5. New Mexico - August 2001, bear breaks into house and is confronted by elderly owner who dies in ensuing attack.
6. Fallsburg, New York - August 2002, bear grabs 5 month old infant and stroller from porch resulting in death of child. 
7. Quebec - September 2002, A man was attacked and killed in his campsite in the Gaspé region of Northern Quebec.
8. British Columbia - September 2002, Man attacked and killed at a remote oil rigging site in northeastern B.C.
9. Ontario - April 17 2003, forestry worker stalked, killed and partially consumed by large, male black bear. No rabies or other illness detected during necropsy.
10. Northwest Territories - 2005, 71-year-old Merlyn Carter was found dead behind the main cabin of his sport-fishing camp about 300 kilometres northeast of Fort Smith. Family members shot and killed the black bear responsible.
11. Manitoba - August 26, 2005, A 69-year-old man was fatally mauled by a black bear while out picking plums north of Winnipeg
12. Ontario - Jacqueline Perry, 30, died in a predatory attack in Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park. Here husband was seriously injured trying to protect her and then her body.
13. Tennessee - April 13, 2006, 6 year old Elora Petrasek from Ohio was killed and her mother and two year old brother seriously injured in black bear attack in the Cherokee National Forest.