A black bear had to undergo a procedure after roaming around Michigan for two years with a plastic lid stuck around its neck.

State wildlife biologists have tracked down an elusive bear in Montmorency County that got its head stuck in a plastic lid as ...

A fter getting a plastic lid stuck around its neck as a cub two years ago, a young black bear in Michigan is finally free of ...

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

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 ...

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

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MI -- State wildlife biologists have freed a black bear that had a plastic lid stuck around its neck.

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

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

The bear had “significant scarring and an abscess on its neck,” according to a June 18 news release.

A Michigan bear was freed from a plastic lid stuck on its neck for two years by state wildlife biologists after being spotted ...

After evading authorities on a two-year-long manhunt, an elusive black bear has finally been caught in northern Michigan.