(AP) -- Michigan wildlife officials will try to euthanize a mother black bear that mauled a bow hunter in a tree stand. Twenty-one-year-old Chad Fortune tells the Detroit Free Press the mother bear and three large cubs attacked him Saturday evening. The stand is in Emmett County's Bear Creek Township in the northern Lower Peninsula.
The Walloon Lake resident was hunting deer. He says he punched, kicked and screamed at the bears as they separately tried to reach the stand, about 15 feet off the ground. Fortune was rescued two hours later and needed 40 stitches in his leg.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment says the mother is dangerous because she's lost her fear of humans, and the cubs can survive on their own.
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