If you encounter a bear, he said it’s good to have a “healthy fear” of them. “We like to say bears get habituated to people, but I think it also goes the other way around.

As Brent Krantz tells it, he hadn’t gone bear hunting in 25 years, but when his older brother, Randy – an avid bear hunter – died unexpectedly May 1, “I wanted to hunt in his honor.” ...