About 1% of this state is developed for human habitation. 

Until the early '80s we had an annual Hillside fall moose hunt. This allowed us to establish our territorial boundaries, the same as wild predators to. With the removal of these boundaries moose began to gradually creep in, feel safe, and now THEY are territorial, in our habitation. Bears are a bit more people-wary, but now they've followed one of their food sources and have found easy livin', again, in OUR habitation.

They were not "here before us" (we're part of nature too), this is not something you accept as "part of living in Alaska". You don't see this kind of stupidity in bush communities, and they don't have to worry about problem wildlife. 

These encounters will continue to increase until the powers that be pull their collective heads out, institute a city-wide cull and reinstate a hunt along our borders.