…The keystone predator on the brink of extinction in 1975 now raids vineyards in Flathead County and cornfields near Valier. And it does so from a recovery area just 1 percent or 2 percent of its original range before conflicts with American pioneers nearly wiped it off the landscape. “We’re seeing a lot more bears than normal sucked into agricultural areas,” Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks bear manager Jamie Jonkel said during the NCDE regional meeting in Missoula on Wednesday. “We had 40 grizzlies in the Ovando-Helmville area during a peak period of August when it got really dry.” And bear challenges continue to grow. …Wednesday’s gathering of bear managers aimed to finish their strategy for moving grizzlies from federal to state control by next summer.