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 ...

While most bears worry about finding their next meal, one in Michigan spent two years trying to get rid of his last one – or ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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