When I first started hunting in 1980 I saw my first bear here in NJ, after a few years I hunted deer in areas where bears weren't roaming. Then eight years ago I started hunting again in the northwestern section of NJ, and again I started seeing bears, maybe one or two a year. Then about 3 years after hunting this area, I would see three bears aday, and each year more and more. With NY to the north, and PA to the west both having bear hunts, those bears made there way to NJ to be safe, and they found heaven, no hunting for them, lots of food, cover, water, etc. Then NJ had there first hunt last year, I was lucky to harvest a bear, 328 harvested and problem bear numbers went down this year, the month of August saw a spike of problems, 30 plus catagory 1 bears. So your state needs to have a hunt, weather or not harvesting 30 bears will do the job I don't know, time will only tell.