Timothy Treadwell Timothy Treadwell (April 29, 1957 – October 5, 2003) was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, amateur naturalist, eco-warrior and documentary film maker. He lived among the coastal grizzly bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska, USA, for approximately 13 seasons. At the end of his 13th season in the park in 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and partially devoured by one or possibly two grizzly bears. Treadwell's life, work and death were the subject of the 2005 documentary film by Werner Herzog titled Grizzly Man. An audio recording of the attack survived, but has not been released to the public.

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Lapinski contends that Treadwell suffered from bipolar disorder. Manic behavior is obvious in the documentary.

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Treadwell was born as Timothy Dexter in Long Island, New York. He attended Connetquot High School, where he achieved average grades and was the swimming team's star diver. He claimed to the public however that he was a British orphan who was born in Australia. According to his account, he became a drug addict after failing to gain the role won by Woody Harrelson in the sitcom Cheers. It has not been verified whether Treadwell was runner-up to Harrelson for the acting role.

In October 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, visited Katmai National Park. In the film Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog states that Amie feared bears and felt deeply uncomfortable in their presence. Treadwell chose to set his campsite near a salmon stream where grizzlies commonly feed in the fall. Treadwell was in the park later in the year than usual, at a time when bears fight to gain as much food as possible before winter, and limited food supplies cause them to be more aggressive than in other months. Food was scarce that fall, so the grizzly bears were even more aggressive than usual.

Treadwell was to leave the park at his usual time of year, but he had a disagreement with the airline about his ticket and decided to stay longer. The bears he had been used to during the summer had already gone into hibernation, and bears that Treadwell did not know from other parts of the park were moving into the area. The very last footage that shows Treadwell alive also shows a bear behind him; the bear had been diving into the river repeatedly for a piece of dead salmon. Treadwell mentioned in the footage that he did not feel entirely comfortable around that bear. Diagram of attack site showing positions of bodies. Note that the surveyor mistakenly marked longitude as East, which would have placed this incident in the middle of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Around noon on Sunday, October 5, 2003, Treadwell spoke with an associate in Malibu, California by satellite phone. Treadwell mentioned no problems with any bears. The next day, October 6, the mangled remains of Treadwell and Huguenard were discovered by Willy Fulton, the Kodiak air taxi pilot who arrived at their campsite to pick them up. Treadwell's disfigured head, partial backbone, and right forearm/hand still wearing his wrist watch were recovered at the scene. Huguenard's partial remains were found near the encampment, partially buried in a mound of twigs and dirt. A large male grizzly (tagged Bear 141) protecting the campsite was killed by park rangers during their attempt to retrieve the bodies. A second adolescent bear was also killed a short time later after it charged the park rangers. A necropsy revealed human body parts such as fingers and limbs. It is not clear from any evidence or the audio recording if either of these two bears killed the couple. In the 85-year history of Katmai National Park, this was the first incident of a person being killed by a bear.

A video camera was recovered at the site. According to Alaska State Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson, no pictures were found on the tape. This fact led troopers to believe the attack might have happened while the camera was stuffed in a duffel bag or during the dark of night. 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 tape is now the property of Jewel Palovak and has not been released to the public (*). In Grizzly Man filmmaker Werner Herzog listens to the recording and then urges Palovak to destroy it. In the follow-up mini-series "The Grizzly Man Diaries", Palovak admitted she still owns the tape, but has not listened to its contents and said she hopes she never does.

Timothy Treadwell. (2009, October 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:40, October 25, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Treadwell&oldid=321150874

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