Photos: Bear with lid stuck around its neck finally freed after 2 years

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – In 2023, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' field office in the northern county of Montmorency received a tip about a young black bear with a container lid stuck around its neck.

Biologists kept an eye out for the bear after seeing it on a trail camera. The bear, then believed to be a cub, was hard to track, however.

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“The bear would prove elusive over the next two years...