Lot of bold faced lies in the above post
In fact he emphazied the safest way to respond to a bear encounter throughout his books.
safest way to respond to a violent bear encounter is NOT with bearspray, it is with a 375 H&H or something similar, combined with the skill and nerves to use it.
He also brought much awareness to the public about bears being on the endagered species list. His books chronicaled the life of brown bears and their habitats and were brilliantly illustrated with close up photos that he took himself.
First statement, false. The bears he was 'protecting' aren't on the endadgered species list.
Seconds statment, actually a negative. Any self respecting nature photographer attempts to NOT interfere with the animals they are photograhing. They stay away, use blinds, and long distance zoom lenses, or whatever it takes to preserve their actual natural behavior for the photos. Timmy didn't do that. He was one step above photographers that set out food to attract bears for photos, that isn't natural.
I think that his life had value as all life does. Why not look to the positive side of the outcome?
All life has value, then why did he risk his life? he basically threw it away, but hey that's his business. He ALSO thew away his girlfriend's life, and put other people in danger coming to get his corpse
Why tear down another human being? Does fear run your life are does love?
Something to think about......... Of course my musings are as much for me as for you the reader. Namaste Kodi bear
Why tear down another human being? Because they are wrong and dangerous. I hope you woudl be willing to stand up and say to Adolph Hitler that his 'final solution' to jews is wrong, or would that be tearing Adolph down, and hence not acceptable. His examples and his suggestions and his ideas put other people AND other wild animals in danger.
Do you know what really helps bears, and a lot of other wildlife? Departments of Natural Resources, who get a lot of funding from hunting licence sales. Plus the land purchased with a part of all hunting licence sales. The truth is the hunter does a lot more for preserving all wildlife than the birdwatcher or the nature photographer.
If he was just a nut off by himself cavorting with the bears, and got eaten, I'd say he was still worthy of scorn. Why take a few bears with him, and put other people at risk? What's worse, he spread his crazy propaganda. not so much that people should go hug bears, but that all hunters are poachers, taht strategic harvesting of bears is wrong, and that these bears are endangered. He lied to get money to do what he wanted. In my book that makes him a con man.
Con men are the type of people who SHOULD be torn down