State biologists and game wardens pulled off an unusual feat this week when they rescued a young bull moose that got stuck in an old well in Pembroke.

When Steve Dunham, a regional wildlife biologist with the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, got a call about a moose trapped in a well in Pembroke on Wednesday evening, he says he wasn't sure what to expect.

When he arrived on scene, he found a young bull moose he estimates to weigh around 500 pounds sloshing around in the bottom of an eight-foot-deep, hand-dug stone well that was hidden in dense vegetation on private property.

"We knew that we'd have to immobilize it to be able to remove it, because a bull moose in the rut is not an unformidable animal. And it's very powerful," Dunham said.

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