A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better. Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for two years.

Since 2023, wildlife biologists in Michigan had been searching for a black bear with a huge plastic lid stuck around its neck, and this month, they finally found it.

Since 2023, wildlife biologists in Michigan had been searching for a black bear with a huge plastic lid stuck around its neck, and this month, they finally found it.

Wildlife biologists in Montmorency County, Michigan, removed the plastic lid from the young male bear's neck earlier this month after it was captured and sedated the animal on June 2, the Michigan ...

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.

Images were released by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and showed the bear with the lid on its neck. Other images show DNR staff with the immobilized bear after it was captured ...

For two years, a young black bear roamed Michigan with a lid to a 55-gallon drum stuck around its neck. It was no doubt annoying for the 110-pound bear, but it was mostly all the 2-year-old cub knew.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Wildlife experts with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently stepped in to help a black bear that had a container lid stuck around its neck for two years.

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 hole on a barrel lid typically must be large enough to avoid what happened ...

For two years, a young black bear roamed Michigan with a lid to a 55-gallon drum stuck around its neck. It was no doubt annoying for the 110-pound bear, but it was mostly all the 2-year-old cub knew.

Wildlife experts with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently stepped in to help a black bear that had a container lid stuck around its neck for two years.