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spooky-grizzly:

Timothy Treadwell, also known as the ‘Grizzly Man’ was an amazing man. He spent the last 13 summers of his life living in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.. After the 13th summer, Tim, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and partially eaten by a bear. During his time in the park, Tim had made ‘friends’ with the bears and foxes that lived in and around it. It is speculated that he may have been mentally ill because of his anthropomorphic treatment of these animals and because he refused to carry any sort of defense against these creatures. Even other grizzly activists such as Charlie Russell [studied bears for 42 years, raised them and lived with them in Russia for a decade] criticized Treadwell for this unreasonable behavior. People who study/live around Grizzlies usually carry around bear mace and portable electric fences to put around their tents for protection, Tim had neither. He said that he once used mace on a bear and felt horrible about the pain he put the animal in. Tim’s best friend while he was in the park was a fox he had also named Timothy, he said because he saw the fox as kind of a son. Since Tim came back to the park every summer, he had what he called a ‘standing relationship’ with the local bear population. He would see the same bears every year and try to follow up with them to keep the ‘relationship’ strong. I believe that Tim was just a man that loved animals and felt a sense of purpose among them. While most will call him crazy, fanatical, or even stupid, I think he should be honored. If you ever get the chance, try to catch the series The Grizzly Man Diaries, it’s available on the Netflix instant play. It is a series using only Timothy Treadwell’s documentation of the wildlife in the national park. There is also a documentary on him called ‘Grizzly Man’. 




flamelikesunset:

“For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.”  ― Rudolf Rocker