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Skriven 2007-12-31 18:17:46 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
   Kommentar till text 9124 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Cats
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30 Dec 07 20:55, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Think So? Tell that to Timothy Treadwell, who lived with Grizzlies,
 RW>> wrote books about them and was also killed by one while in their
 RW>> midst...the danger of a bear attack is frequent when in bear
 RW>> country...you were safely hiding in the bunk house, or you would
 RW>> know the difference.

 WD> I just happened to be in Alaska just before he got himself killed and
 WD> also right after, also followed the complete story in the Alaska
 WD> Daily News.

 WD> Mr. Treadwel (only 1 'l') is only taken serious by people who take
 WD> Fox News serious.

Wrong, as usual...

"Living with Wild Bears in Alaska
by Timothy Treadwell, Jewel Palovak - Nature - 1999 - 208 pages
Crammed with little-known bear lore and facts, much of which Treadwell has
gleaned from his own research, this is the first book to reveal the
day-to-day..."

Timothy Treadwell
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Timothy Treadwell (April 29, 1957-October 5, 2003), born Timothy Dexter,
was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, amateur naturalist, and
documentary film maker, who lived among the coastal grizzly bears of
Katmai National Park in Alaska for approximately 13 seasons. At the end of
his thirteenth season in the park in 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie
Huguenard were killed and eaten by a grizzly bear. An audio recording of
the attack survived. Treadwell's life, work, and death were the subject of
the 2005 documentary film by Werner Herzog titled Grizzly Man.

Two Ls...

 WD> He considerd himself the Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey of the
 WD> Grizzlies, with the exception that Goodall and Fossey were scientists
 WD> while he was an adventurer.

See above...

 WD> Treadwel

Two Ls...

 WD> was cited numerous times by Park Rangers for playing with bear cubs
 WD> whose mother was not around, that's the same as playing Russian
 WD> roulette with only 1 empty chamber. The way how he approached
 WD> bears was considered "harrassing wildlife" by Park Rangers which was
 WD> obvious from the documentary he made for the Discovery Channel called
 WD> "Grizzly Diaries".

Yeah, he 'harrssed them bars' like that for 13 years...you can see his
brand of 'harrassment' in his film of the events called Grizzly Man.

 WD> Treadwel

Two Ls...

 WD> was cited several times for doing such outrageous things as
 WD> operating a generator within park-boundaries in Alaska, he refused to
 WD> use an electric fence, he didn't carry bearspray, improper food
 WD> storage. He was discovered with an ice chest full of food in his
 WD> tent, he overstayed his 5 day permits for the same site often (a
 WD> definite no-no in bear country).

All things that are not recommended, yet he survived 13 seasons living
with 'Grizzlys'...

 WD> Then in October 2003 sometime he and his girlfriend set-up camp next
 WD> to a salmon stream in Alaska not that far from Anchorage in a bear
 WD> infested territory. It's that time of the year just before winter
 WD> where they need to take whatever opportunity to fatten themselves
 WD> prior to hitting their den. There was less salmon than other years
 WD> and more bears, the berry-season also had been poor. Under those
 WD> conditions bears get very aggressive, first towards eachother, then
 WD> towards anything alive in the neighbourhood with a potential of
 WD> providing protein.

When the Park Service imposed a new rule - often referred to as the
"Treadwell Rule" (notice the two Ls) - requiring all campers to move their
camps at least one mile (1.6 km) every five days, Treadwell (right, two
Ls) initially tried to obey the order by using a small motor boat to move
his camp up and down the coast. Finding this method impractical, he later
hid his camp from the Park Service in stands of trees with heavy brush.

Eventually, he was cited at least once for this violation. Still, he lived
among the Grizzlies without harm for 13 seasons.

 WD> And "in" walk mister Treadwel and miss Amie Huguenard and pitch camp
 WD> right in the middle of a quarelling bunch of Grizzlies. They were
 WD> told not to go near the place.

In the 85-year history of Katmai National Park, this was the first
incident of a person being killed by a bear.

 WD> They didn't survive all that long and were indeed attacked, killed
 WD> and eaten by bears. It was made memorable because during the attack
 WD> miss Huguenard's handycam switched on for whatever reason and
 WD> recorded the attack, sound only because the lens cap was on, for 6
 WD> minutes when the tape ran out.

The camera had been turned on at some point before the attack, presumably
by Huguenard, but the camera recorded only six minutes of audio before
running out of tape. The audio tape is now the property of Jewel Palovak,
Treadwell's (note the two Ls) long-time friend and has not been released
to the public.

 WD> Every time I heard the event commented upon by Park Rangers from
 WD> Katmai Nat'l Park and Kenai Nat'l Park in Alaska as well as a
 WD> seasoned bear-hunter from Seward AK it always boiled down to the
 WD> same: mr. Treadwel and miss Huguenard were quite foolish to be at
 WD> that spot at that time, what they did amounted to a kind of suicide.

That wasn't the first time Treadwell (note the two Ls) had camped at that
same site.

 WD> FYI, between 1900 and 2007 there are 52 recorded deaths because of
 WD> Black Bears and silver-blue Glacier bears (a black bear subspecies),
 WD> 50 due to Grizzlies (including the Kodiak bear and the the Mexican
 WD> brown bear) and 5 to Polar bears in the whole of North America.

See above...in the last 85 years, there have been no recorded deaths due
to bear attacks in that region...

 WD> The number of people killed by dear and moose is a multitude of that.

LOL!

 WD> I've had many bear encounters in the wild and although it may inspire
 WD> a sense of discomfort when they come too close, never was harrassed
 WD> by one except for a minor scratch.

Sure you were.

 WD> And unlike other's knowledge which comes from googling, mine comes
 WD> from reading the books that deal with this (started by "Night of the
 WD> Grizzlies" about the 1967-deaths of Michelle Koons and Julie Helgeson
 WD> in Glacier National Park) and from training by National Park staff.

There's nothing wrong with Googling, since that exposes one to more
information than you can get from a few out of print books on your shelf.

How to seperate the BS from reality is sometimes a problem, but it's no
different than wading through the BS you add to this echo.

                R\%/itt



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