Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man is a great documentary about a man named Timothy Treadwell who lived amongst grizzly bears for 13 summers studying their habits and ways of life. Timothy truly believed that these dangerous and ferocious animals were his kind and loving companions. He felt it was his duty to protect the grizzlies from our society who would only cause them harm. Timothy wasnt always this way however, he was actually an alcoholic and an accidental overdose of pills that nearly killed him is what changed his persona and way of life. From then on, every summer, a pilot would drop Timothy off at the beginning of the summer in the grizzly habitat of Alaska and pick him back up at the end of summer. At the end of the thirteenth summer, the first summer Timothy had ever brought a human companion on his adventure with him, the pilot returned to find only the dead bodies of the Timothy and his companion Amy. They had been mauled by a grizzly bear at their campsite, a fate many had expected for Timothy. Timothy's adventures into the wild to "protect the grizzly bear" bring about several environmental questions and views. Was Timothy really protecting the bears or was he causing just as much harm as anyone else entering the bears’ habitat? The argument could be seen from both ways. While Timothy did believe he was protecting the bears from poachers and other people entering their habitat, the bears he was studying were living in a federally protected land area. Grizzly bears like to be left alone and not disturbed within their territory but Timothy was entering this area anyways as he felt it was his job. Timothy may have been causing more harm than good by scaring the bears and stressing them with his presence.  Overall, Timothy's fate may have been the consquence of his adventures however, his video clips and studies do provide people today with up close knowledge of the big, beautiful grizzly bears!