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

An unwelcome plastic collar was removed from around the neck of a 2-year-old bear. Once upon a time there was a black bear in ...

Norton said it’s not precisely known how the lid got stuck on the bear’s neck. Bear baiting is legal in Michigan, but the ...

For at least two years, a Michigan black bear traipsed around the forest, a blue barrel lid wrapped around its neck, as state ...

The bear weighed about 110 pounds, which is standard for a growing 2-year-old black bear, according to DNR. It has ...

In a case that highlights the importance of Michigan’s bear-baiting regulations, state wildlife biologists in Montmorency ...

Wildlife biologists first became aware of the bear with a lid around its neck in 2023. They’d been searching ever since.

Wildlife experts have successfully freed a black bear that had endured two years with a hard plastic lid trapped around its ...

A plastic lid certainly wasn't on this bear's list of bare necessities. Biologists were thankfully able to safely remove the ...