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 ...

The bear had somehow shoved his head through a 5-inch-wide hole in a blue plastic drum and although he was able to remove the lid from the drum, he was unable to remove his head from the lid ...

(WNEM/Gray News) – Wildlife biologists removed a plastic lid wrapped ... once the anesthesia wore off. The lid is similar to those that fit a 55-gallon drum used by hunters to bait bears ...

(WNEM/Gray News) – Wildlife biologists removed a plastic lid wrapped around the neck ... back onto the property once the anesthesia wore off. The lid is similar to those that fit a 55-gallon drum used ...