RE: bear questions
Aside from mating and of course sows raising their cubs, of all other things black bears relate to,95% of it is food. That is meat they've killed, road kill, grubs, all sorts of grasses, fruits/berries, nuts, etc.
They are generally, although be no means exclusively, most active at night. Since they have to put on the body mass for the whole winter hibernation in just around 6 months, there are times they're foraging and feeding nearly round the clock.
So, if you hope to get a chance at one and by law you can't put out food to draw them in during the day, you'll need to find the signs of where they are feeding on the types of vegatation that's in abundance during the season (e.g.areas with wild blueberries, gooseberriesor high bush cranberries)and make you plans to hunt those higher probability feeding areas. At least that is what I would do.