Grizzly's return to Manitoba

Dream on as far as hunting the Manitoba grizzly is concerned. They've put them on the protected list so they could only be killed in self defense. There have been numerous sightings over the last few years around Dymond Lake, and further down the coast around Broad River in Wapusk National Park. There was a pic posted some time ago of a grizzly taken from the air that was said to be taken north of here. The picture was on the edge of a body of water and the vegetation seemed to suggest a fresh water rather than salt water, so I'm thinking it was a Dymond Lake bear. I haven't seen one yet, but it hasn't been for lack of looking.
 
...though the grizzly has been hunted out of much of its North American range.
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The prairie population of grizzly bears is listed as extirpated by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, which believes there is no prospect for the return of grizzlies to the prairies.
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If hunting was the reason, then why would there be no prospect for return? Could it actually be because their prairie habitat has been almost entirely taken over by humans?

Once again, habitit destruction, not hunting.
 
The headline that the grizzlies return to Manitoba is a bit of a misnomer in that there have always been sightings of the occasional grizzly along the Nunavut border, and when the grizzly existed in the prairie portion of Manitoba, what is now Northern Manitoba was not part of the province. I don't think you'll see a return of the grizzly to southern Manitoba.
 
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