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

HILLMAN, Mich. — Michigan wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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