U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Michigan's 13th Congressional District, is sponsoring a bill that would ban hunters from intentionally placing food on federal public lands to attract bears. The Don't Feed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – In 2023, the ...

Washington ― A Detroit congressman last week introduced legislation that aims to ban the practice of bear baiting on federal lands ― a hunting method that uses food to entice bears to an area to kill ...

June 24 (UPI) --Wildlife biologists in Michigan were able to rescue a black bear seen wandering for two years with a plastic lid stuck around its neck. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY — A young black bear seen wandering Northern Michigan with a blue plastic lid stuck around its neck for the past two years was finally freed by state wildlife biologists earlier ...

DNR was able to capture and cut off large lid from a young bear's neck Officials express the importance of storing and disposing of containers that could trap wildlife This story has been updated.

If you feed bears because you're trying to photograph them, you're likely to get busted. But feeding bears in 12 states and national forests in ten of those states is fine if you're only trying to ...

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 ...