Wildlife biologists in Montmorency County, Michigan, removed the plastic lid from the young male bear's neck earlier this month after it was captured and sedated the animal on June 2, the Michigan ...

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MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A black bear in northern Michigan is finally free after spending two years with a blue 55-gallon plastic drum lid stuck around its neck.

After that, the DNR was on the lookout for the animal with a hard plastic lid around the neck. The bear first turned up on a trail camera as a cub in 2023 in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

A 2-year-old black bear was finally freed from its misery after wildlife officials removed a plastic lid stuck on its neck for almost two years. Wildlife biologists in Montmorency County, Michigan, ...

DNR was able to capture and cut off large lid from a young bear's neck Officials express the importance of storing and disposing of containers that could trap wildlife This story has been updated ...

Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for two years.

Images were released by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and showed the bear with the lid on its neck. Other images show DNR staff with the immobilized bear after it was captured ...

Authorities don’t know where or how the bear got its head stuck in the 5-inch hole in the lid. Despite bear baiting being legal in Michigan, bait containers can only be used on private land and ...