CITY OF NEWBURGH – State Department of Environmental Conservation officers and wildlife staff removed a 300-pound black bear from a tree in Newburgh on Saturday, the second time in just over a year a bear was found in the city.

Personnel from DEC, along with state troopers and City of Newburgh police officers responded to a report of a bear in a tree in the area of Washington Terrace, the department said on Monday.

Wildlife staff immobilized the bear before capturing and later releasing it in state forest property.

A young male black bear was also captured in June 2017, after being spotted wandering along the Newburgh waterfront in June 2017. The bear was cornered in a copse of woods between River View Salon & Spa on Front Street and the landing for the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry.