For years I lived a mile up Sunshine Canyon out of Boulder (please no comments on the town!) We had bears raiding our trash cans daily and walking by our window to get to the grease in our gas grill.
This is typical of almost every town particularly along the front range. Bears know where the easy meals come from.
Keep applying for preference points on any/every animal you think you will ever want to hunt. Just get the preference points and not the actual hunt for your first choice. It costs about $3-$5 or so a year for the point, but you will be ready to pull the trigger on the points once you research enough and find the areas you want to hunt.
Books, for where to shoot them check out Craig Boddington's book (Craig Boddington.com I think). I have it and it is pretty good. Amazon probably has it or maybe your local library can purchase it if they don't already have it.
There are lots of books on hunting them and lots of websites with good info as well. Just yahoo or google black bear hunting.
Finally, I went to AK in September for an NRA combination black bear and fishing trip. In 3 days we saw maybe 40 bears. I took an OK one maybe 225-250 lbs. It appeared to be an old barren sow with a huge head and small ears.
Good luck on your endeavor!
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