After that, the Department of Natural Resources was on the lookout for the elusive animal with a hard plastic lid around the neck, Norton said. The bear appeared again on a camera in late May ...

MONTMORENCY CO., Mich (WNEM) – Wildlife biologists recently removed a plastic lid from the neck of a young black bear that it carried around for two years. According to Michigan Department of ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MI -- State wildlife biologists have freed a black bear that had a plastic lid stuck around its neck. They believe the bear has been living with the lid around its neck for two ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A black bear in northern Michigan is finally free after spending two years with a blue 55-gallon plastic drum lid stuck around its neck. The bear ...

Michigan DNR biologists discovered a young black bear who got his head stuck in a 5-inch hole in a plastic lid. They believe it's been there for two years, since the bear was just a cub.