Orphaned bear cubs are caught, taken to rehab in Minnesota

When Thief River Falls-area DNR Conservation Officer Bobby Stringer received reports of a dead black bear in a ditch in Minnesota’s Kittson County, it wasn’t known if there were now orphaned cubs that needed to be tracked down.
“Nobody saw the bear cubs initially because the bear cubs weren’t (with the dead sow). And then as the week went by, a person observed two cubs with the (deceased) mother,” Stringer said. Once Stringer learned there were cubs that needed to be caught and perhaps transferred to a rehabilitation center, the clock started ticking to try capture them safely.

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