{"id":24765,"date":"2018-10-13T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T20:01:51","slug":"black-bear-cub-rescued-in-mchenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/10\/13\/black-bear-cub-rescued-in-mchenry\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Cub Rescued in McHenry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Plastic Container Successfully\u00a0Removed from \u2018Buckethead\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24766\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/unnamed-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24766\" class=\" wp-image-24766\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a black bear\" width=\"350\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buckethead<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a three day pursuit, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> Wildlife and Heritage Service, with assistance from the Maryland Natural Resources Police, successfully tranquilized a 100-pound male black bear cub to remove a plastic jar that was stuck around its head.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued cub, affectionately known as \u201cBuckethead,\u201d was freed near the Wisp Resort in McHenry during the annual Autumn Glory Festival.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd was very happy to see the cub safely handled and reunited with the sow and another cub,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a> Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cOur response staff did an outstanding job dealing with this very public situation, and handled it in a most professional and responsible manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the plastic prison was removed, the healthy cub returned to the woods to reunite with its sow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic Container Successfully\u00a0Removed from \u2018Buckethead\u2019 After a three day pursuit, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife and Heritage Service, with assistance from the Maryland Natural Resources Police, successfully tranquilized a 100-pound male black bear cub to remove a plastic jar that was stuck around its head. The rescued cub, affectionately known as \u201cBuckethead,\u201d was<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/10\/13\/black-bear-cub-rescued-in-mchenry\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14,13],"tags":[4783,2947,2946,3531,4808,2949,2945,4807],"class_list":["post-24765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news","category-wildlife","tag-autumn-glory-festival","tag-bear","tag-bears","tag-black-bears","tag-buckethead","tag-garrett-county","tag-paul-peditto","tag-wisp-resort"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24777,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions\/24777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}