To the editor: Bears in garbage, it’s the same old (garbage) story: Recently I read an article regarding a mother bear and her four cubs raiding garbage cans and dumpsters in the Kinnelon area. This article is the same old story we have heard over and over again. Bears getting into garbage, people frightened for their children and bird feeders hung out for the birds during the summer season. Garbage is what attracts bears into the neighborhood. This mother bear is teaching her four cubs bad garbage habits and eventually the mother or one of her cubs will become a category one bear and will be killed by Fish and Wildlife. Killing or removing one garbage bear will result in another replacing it. The problem, which is garbage, has not been corrected. These Kinnelon residents need bear education along with bear resistant garbage cans. At least these residents are warning each other a bear is in the area. But what they should be doing is forming a group to scare the bears off. Make noise, yell, scream be vocal and let the bears know they are not welcomed in this area. New Jersey has had two bear hunt seasons. Yes, many garbage/nuisance bears were killed in the 2005 bear hunt, but as I have stated, by killing or removing one garbage bear within two weeks another will replace it because it opens territory for another garbage bear. Then you have bears being hunted in the woods that are just being bears with little to no human contact. Killing these bears does not address the roaming neighborhood garbage bear issue. Hunting bears will not ease the fear people have that bears will harm their children or the fear one has of bears alone. Until the mayors and council people, governor, D.E.P Commissioner and Fish and Wildlife do something about getting bear country residents bear resistant garbage cans at an affordable price it will be only a matter of time before someone gets mauled or killed by a bear. A roaming neighborhood garbage bear. Florence Iannantuano Hewitt