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Minnesota bear stuck in ice freed by DNR

Feb 07, 2023 09:39AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: A black bear has been stuck in a ditch for the last three days. (KVLY)

By 
Bobby Falat - Northern News Now - February 6, 2023

A team of four from the DNR went out to help the bear. Officials used a syringe pole to inject the bear with an anesthetic and the bear was knocked out within 10 minutes.

Minnesota DNR says the melting snow flooded this bear out of a culvert, and it got stuck in the deep snow and ice.


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