A bear broke into my kitchen. Then I watched him die.

This commentary is by Rachel Lee Stoll, an antiquarian bookseller.There is much conversation right now about bears in Vermont, about their increasing numbers and how and when we hunt them down. I have a dog in this bear fight, because my son and I came home a few weeks ago to find that our house had been visited in our absence by a hungry bear.  The bear — terrifically nimble — opened a window I had not firmly latched, fell into my son’s room, clambered all about the