A practical guide to not getting mauled by a bear while hiking or camping this summer

If it feels like you've seen a lot of bear attack headlines lately, you're not imagining it.

Over the past several weeks, a string of high-profile incidents has put bears back in the national conversation. A hiker was killed in Glacier National Park — the park's first fatal bear attack in nearly three decades. Another hiker survived a grizzly mauling on the popular Grinnell Glacier Trail just weeks later. Yellowstone visitors also found themselves on the wrong end of an encounter with a...