A fight is shaping up over Louisiana black bears. It’s not a battle over the bears wandering through yards in Patterson, where residents are required by city ordinance to have and use bear-proof trash cans. It’s not a battle over how best to corral wayward juvenile males who sometimes wander out of the Atchafalaya Basin and into urban areas as big as Lafayette in search of their own territories. It’s not a battle in criminal court, like the one that recently levied a $2,500 fine against an Iberia Parish man after his son shot a black bear. It’s a battle that one of ...