The phrase "attract bears" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing wildlife, camping, or food storage, particularly in relation to safety measures to avoid bear encounters.
Example: "Leaving food scraps around the campsite can attract bears, so it's important to store all food in bear-proof containers."
Alternatives: "draw in bears" or "lure bears".
Food resources on reclaimed mines attract bears from wilderness areas and bears may be more adaptable to landscape change than previously thought.
Hunters were told they could not use bait to attract bears, and could not use dogs to track the bears and chase them into the trees to be shot – a practice permitted in some other states.
Undamming the Elwha River is expected to boost its salmon population from 3,000 to 400,000, which will attract bears, eagles and other wildlife that thrived before the river was dammed in 1914.
A line like 'I read somewhere that their periods attract bears' " — which Carell said in "Anchorman" — "you need to go slow at the front so the audience gets it.
The goal of bearproofing your camp is to minimize odors that might attract bears, and to set up safe storage areas for food and garbage that are out of reach of bears and are away from your sleeping area.
To minimize conflicts with grizzlies, park officials have cracked down on bird feeders, on the grounds they attract bears, have temporarily closed some campgrounds and trails, and have harassed bears with noisemakers to teach them to stay away from humans.
Stop feeding birds then, because birdseed attracts bears.
An old orchard yields apples and attracts bears when fruit is dangling in the fall.
And Mr. Smith debunks some common claims about what attracts bears.
When it was time to move indoors, Mr. Oppenheim carefully swept up the crumbs on the table, to avoid attracting bears.
A few years back, he said, he received a call from members of an Orthodox community north of New York City asking what they should do about a fruit tree that was attracting bears to an area where children played.
