I'm from Montana, Gene. In my experience, bears are generally retiring, though I've bumped into a sow with cubs... not as cordial as I had hoped. When my wife and I are on hiatus in a couple of years, we plan to spend a fair amount of time boondocking in my old stomping grounds near Libby, Montana. Bears seem to have become a bit more of a nuisance in the past 20 years. By the time we get the Overlander to Big Sky country, I would take a very dim view towards any bears who decided to eat it.
Of course, my great-grandmother always contended that bear lard made the best pie crust so everything might even out in the end.
