A report of a bear breaking into a cabin south of Churchill July 18 led a conservation officer and a resource management technician to set two bear traps in the area, one of which captured a barren ground grizzly just over a week later on July 26. The bear was placed in the polar bear holding facility and released that afternoon north of Churchill near the Manitoba-Nunavut boundary, where it was believed to have come from. The adult male bear, weighing 338 pounds, had its lip tattooed and was affixed with a GPS ear tag, which will transmit its location for the next four months. Barren ground grizzlies, a protected species under the Endangered Species and Ecosystems Act, are believed to no longer be normally present in Manitoba.
