"You're pretty unlikely to encounter a dangerous bear in the BWCA.  The last bear attack was, I believe, in 1985 or '87."

there was a fatal attack more recently than '87 I think.  About 10 years ago - a lady doctor attacked while she was sun bathing - her husband tried to save her, but couldn't

much as in the new attack, the bear focused on a particular victim and wasn't easy to dissuade

in a different article about this new attack, the guy says he was sitting on the front porch with his new german shepard puppy, and the bear just charged out of the wood at them - dog went after the bear? or vice versa - anyway, bear took out the dog, dragged it back into the brush, and then continued his attack on his selected target by crashing thru a window in the cabin (this guy didn't seem to have fought back very much, but its hard to get facts out of news articles), and later pursuing the guy as he ran from the cabin.  typical behavior of a predatory bear.  ever watch "Nature" when a lion or a pack of wolves have selected thier target from a herd - total fixation on that one animal.