local bear family disrupted

I live in a rural very well forested area. loggers began working down the road about 1/2 mile clearcutting the forest about a month ago and are still going. it turns out a family of 4 black bears was peacefully living in the area. could be because the is a pretty good size natural cave on the property. but anyways the bears life has been disrupted and now are being sighted by several neighbors on a regular basis dogs and other animal are now very agitated and kind of going crazy compared to the relative peace we have had .compared to in the past 6 years that I have been here there were two sightings of black bears in the neighborhood prior to this logging activity. I guess time will tell as to how we might be impacted by this most recent activity.

Are there any rules/regs requiring the loggers to mitigate harm to wildlife in your area?  Seems like there should be, it is not fair to the surrounding community for a commercial enterprise to push homeless bears out into the neighborhood. Business should "bear" the burden of such externalities in my opinion, and if that means you cannot log where a family of bears is hunkering down to spend the winter, then you need to find a different time or place for logging, or a way to harvest wood sustainably without evicting bears.

depending on how you look at it fortunately or unfortunately there are very little to no regulations for much of anything here as long as your not moonshining, growing pot or making meth, and being one of the poorest places in the country logging is probably the largest employment opportunity in the area. hopefully the bears will find a new place to hunker down. there are a whole bunch of cows and calves in pastures along the road and as soon as one of them get mauled I'm sure there will be an uproar over the bears. there are literally 1000's of forested acres that are inhabited only by wildlife here and I just hope they find a new home peacefully. in the past there has more livestock, mostly chickens and goats killed by bobcats, feral cats and coyotes than anything else. ive yet to hear about anything killed by a bear, they have rarely been spotted until this logging started. but about 7 or8  miles south as the crow flys there are some rental cabins and the owner has lots of pictures of black bears that I guess try to get into the trash cans.

A good way to keep the bears safe is for you and your neighbors look at your land from a bear's perspective and do everything possible to make it unattractive - well secured feed and garbage, fruit trees picked, composts well covered - even avoid having containers that might hold water that the bears might want to drink. Doing that's not easy, but if there isn't food, they'll hopefully look elsewhere to camp out.

Yes, balancing the need for money and the needs of everyone else is always tricky. Short term gains tend to be of more interest than long term. Thinning the forest rather than clear-cutting only works if you're looking long term. Loggers have been programmed to want "big" areas to clear-cut and may not even have suitable equipment or skills to do otherwise.