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Life & Death of a Grizzly Lover Life & Death of a Grizzly Lover 2 Poor Senator Stevens! Alaska Sena- Tanyo Ravicz tor Ted Stevens was up to his ears in brown bears. The whole thing made him bilious at “Well, I see that you’re not a pile of bones from those bears yet,” Bill said, shaking my hand breakfast. First the Coast Guard took him heartily. bear viewing in Katmai National Park on the “Not yet, but Hulk paid me a visit last night mainland and at Frazer Lake on Kodiak Is- and it did get a little scary!” land. Then he had to give a business speech Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears In at the Kodiak Inn. At breakfast before the Alaska speech he met with community leaders scrambling to devise a brown bear man- What a rush! Timothy Treadwell lost agement plan for Kodiak. Ecotourism, air his life when he got himself killed by a taxi operators, hunting interests — they all brown bear recently, but he didn’t lose in wanted a piece of the bears. “Fly-in bear- the living of it. He’s still a hero. He was viewing at Frazer Lake is doomed if the feds wrong about the bears but he was right give it Wild and Scenic River designation,” about the way he lived his life. To Timothy somebody bitched in his ear. Senator Ste- Treadwell, Timothy Treadwell was a savior. vens bit into his toast. Crunch. What he He set himself up as a Christ figure and the hated was not their jockeying for an audi- bears killed him not knowing what they did. ence with him — frankly, he loved this — it He loved them, unconditionally. Done with was their goddamned petty self- dope, he was filled with hope: lived with interestedness. What thrilled Ted Stevens bears in the summer and preached their was the grand game, the sublimated fracas gospel in the winter. Be good to bears was of politics, the banners flung out in the his mission and his born-again hug-the- wind; when they actually threw at him their world enthusiasm is positively catching. His bogus statistics, their fiscal projections and courage is astounding. His achievements on winking bear yarns, it irritated him. behalf of bears are arguable, but it’s impos- August 2000. A presidential election sible not to admire what Timothy Treadwell loomed. Senator Stevens hated Bill Clinton’s did for Timothy Treadwell in his quest for guts, and if for no other reason than this, no emotional peace and spiritual belonging. petitioner should have wondered how he Read Among Grizzlies (co-author Jewel would vote on an issue. Palovak) and you’ll see how bears were the The Senator glumly ate his bacon supporting cast in Timothy Treadwell’s psy- while they chattered around him. Like a chodrama. As he says to his ursine friend dominant beast among lesser creatures, he Mr. Chocolate, “I’m ashamed to be human! was the only one eating. He didn’t have a I want to be like you, wild and free, liberat- giant drumstick in his hand or a gold chain ed from the wicked ways of people.” This around his neck, but there was a bit of the tells us nothing about bears. It tells us noth- royal personage in him, and he would have ing about human beings. But it tells us a liked to be able to say it and not just to great deal about Timothy Treadwell. think it: Off with their heads! 1 3 proud of being human as when he nomi- nates himself First Human to venture into Decapitation occurs quite often in one of these danger zones. But if you’re the the universe of Timothy Treadwell. Bears first human going in there, how can you tell are endlessly decapitating salmon when us you’re going in to protect the bears from they catch them, and bears are always ca- poachers? There was a deep crack in his pable of decapitating you if they want. motivations. The two projects that occupied Treadwell knew this. Intellectually he rec- Timothy Treadwell — what he was doing for ognized the bears’ capacity to kill, but he himself as a man, and what he was doing couldn’t stand to say in as many words that for the wild bears of Katmai — were never it’s in their nature to kill because this would completely in harmony. besmirch the Idea which bears as exemplars of “perfect” harmony and bearers of “the truth” had come to represent for him. 4 There is one context where Timothy Treadwell never underplays the danger Breakfast with the Senator is over. posed by brown bears, and that’s when he In the lobby, two of the participants, local strides forth to confront it. Yes, sir. He is men, are talking about brown bears. I hap- repeatedly a hairsbreadth from being killed pen to be present, and it’s the first I’ve by bears. One bear zone he describes as be- heard the name of Timothy Treadwell. One ing packed with dangerous antisocial bears of these locals, Pete, a bush pilot, has flown ready to prey on anything that moves. Ex- Treadwell to a remote spot in Katmai Na- cuse me? Is this Timothy Treadwell talking tional Park and Preserve. The other man — or is it maybe his editor setting us up? No sells sporting goods in Kodiak. Both are way, Tim, don’t go in there, come back! mildly contemptuous of Treadwell, who is None of which subtracts from his said to appear on talk shows. Treadwell is ballsiness. Damn! Can’t you see him out trying to be “the Dian Fossey of brown there hunkering and gutturalizing, then bears.” He has some “very strange manner- standing tall and charging the bears? It’s isms” and looks “like a California surfer guy” some of the best stuff in his book. Fool- and is “very effeminate.” hardy or not, for sheer raw guts Tim takes Most of this is run-of-the-mill insu- the prize. Give him the girl, too. Only, what- larity, it seems to me. But I am curious ever you do, Tim, don’t take her out there about Treadwell. A Californian myself, I with you. He knew better than to take any- have never held a surfer’s appearance body out there with him, but he took her against anyone. Like Treadwell I spent much anyway. Amie Huguenard was killed right of the 1990s doing countermainstream stuff there beside him in Katmai. But more on in the Alaska wilderness. Their criticism that that later. Treadwell is “only in it to generate publicity, To emphasize his daring while con- and sees an opportunity to make some tinuing to raise big bucks, Treadwell has to money” is more troubling than the personal have it both ways about the brown bears. slanders. Their most serious criticism is that Peaceful at heart, they will kill you for the he misrepresents the nature of bears. slightest mistake. This contradiction is cen- Somehow a distortion of the facts, tral to Treadwell’s work. He is never so even for a good reason, irritates the hell out 2 of me. When Robin Williams complains in searchers who rely on electric fences for one of his pictures that human beings are security, or those of us who go armed in the only animal that kills their own kind — bear country, he thought fools. No doubt an often-heard canard — he’s just plain some of his enemies saw him as (in his own wrong. Brown bears do it, among other words) “just another eco-faggot Yankee species, and to Timothy Treadwell’s credit, from the lower forty-eight trying to take he admits it, though with terse reluctance. away their god-given right to shoot wildlife Pete the bush pilot has flown bear for fun and profit.” But when it comes to viewers into Katmai for years. Pete’s the “evil humans” and “greedy developers,” kind of staid conservative you are glad to nobody is more cartoonish in his prejudices have at the throttle of your single-engine than Timothy Treadwell. There are good plane. Unflamboyant, unlike Treadwell, guys and bad guys, and Treadwell and the Pete will never be asked to take his bows on bears are the good guys. No wonder law- Letterman. But he has had extensive oppor- abiding gun owners breathed a sigh of re- tunities to watch brown bear behavior. lief, and Treadwell aficionados a sigh of dis- Mother bears will leave their cubs by Pete’s appointment, when they read in the news- planeload of ecotourists knowing that the paper that the evidence was conclusive: in big boars won’t go near the people. Pete October 2003 Timothy Treadwell and Amie has seen the big males kill the cubs and not Huguenard were killed by bears, not poach- necessarily for the purpose of eating them. ers or anti-bear-huggers. Bears. This was a He has seen them actively go after the tragedy, not a martyrdom. weak-looking cubs. The big males don’t like cubs, they like young sows. Ask Pete about the big boar that stomped on a cub who 5 wouldn’t let him mount its mother in peace. When the cub started squealing again, in Two months before the Senator’s the middle of the copulation, a second big breakfast, I heard an amusing thing. I was boar ran over and stomped on it to shut it alone at my cabin on Kodiak Island listening up. Now there’s genuine cooperative be- to Alaska news on the one radio station I havior for you! receive there.
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