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, occasionally appearing on other trail camera photos but then disappearing after a day or so,” the DNR said in a news release.
Finally, late last month, the DNR was contacted again by a homeowner in Hillman, about 230 miles north of Detroit, who saw the bear on their trail cameras…