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 the Michigan woods. He roamed, hibernated, searched for food and did whatever else a bear does in the woods.

A plastic lid certainly wasn't on this bear's list of bare necessities. Biologists were thankfully able to safely remove the lid from around the cub's neck after nearly two years of it being stuck.

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