A man intending on taking his dog for a walk in the Tall Grass Prairies Monday afternoon while he snapped some photos of flowers and bugs ended up rescuing a hiker from a beaver trap instead.

“I got to the preserve and there was a guy sitting on the ground behind a car trying to flag me down,” recalls Greg Ritchie. “At first, I thought he was just waving at me.”

The Tall Grass Prairie Preserve is located near Gardenton in the RM of Stuartburn (photo credit: Greg Ritchie).Ritchie approached the man and quickly realized the friendly wave was actually a plea for help: the man had a “conibear” beaver trap stuck around his foot. “It turns out he had…