I think many folks forget that bears can swim like a fish and they can smell food a LOG ways off like several miles away
so, if a bear smells food and can get to it, borders mean NOTHING to them
I live in a VERY heavy bear rich area, I average about 20 different bears in my yard a yr, up to 8 so far this yr that I can ID being different from tags to sizes and color marking
been about bears aLOT over the past 35+ yrs, from helping tag trap relocate, rehabilitate,, weight skin and mount, hunt and harvest them
Bears are WAY smarter than most folks give them credit for IMO! PA and WV have a very healthy population of black bears, so NO reason Ohio shouldn't as well in places that can support them yr round ! and thats the KEY food ALL yr, not just in crop times!