Photo: WGFD

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department conducted an unusual rescue recently after a black bear scaled an electrical pole.

Wheatland Wildlife Biologist Keaton Weber darted and relocated a two-year-old female black bear that had climbed up an electrical pole near Cheyenne.

Personnel with Black Hills Energy retrieved the bear with their bucket truck, and it was safely relocated.

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