DNR officer_ Kittson County deputies rescue orphaned bear cubs

DNR officer_ Kittson County deputies rescue orphaned bear cubs

KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — Authorities had been trying to catch the two orphaned bear cubs for several days after their mother was shot and killed, but the cubs had other ideas, recalls Bobby Stringer, a conservation officer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Thief River Falls. Joining in the rescue effort at various times were deputies from the Kittson County Sheriff’s Department and personnel from DNR wildlife. “Multiple folks w…