Grizzly Man Page #8

Downey is hungry!

Tabitha's hungry!

Melissa is eating her babies.

I'm like a f***ing nut.

We've got to have some rain.

I'm not a religious guy. No.

But I'm telling ya,

I'm just pissed because...

It just doesn't seem right.

It just doesn't seem right.

I know it's just weather

and crap like that, and it's...

I don't know what

the variables are.

But we've gotta have

some goddamn rain!

So if there's a God,

Downey needs to eat!

Dump on us. Hurt us!

Come on!

Think rain.

Think rain.

Just a crappy little shower right now.

What kind of crappy... Come on!

Take this again.

Does not make me

very, very happy.

I want rain. I want, if there's a God,

to kick some ass down here.

Let's have some water!

Jesus, boy!

Let's have some water!

Christ man or Allah

or Hindu floaty thing,

let's have some f***ing water

for these animals!

It is now September 21, Thursday

of the year 2000. Expedition 2000.

I am the Lord's humble servant.

I am Allah's disciple.

I am the floaty thing's go-for boy.

There has been a miracle here.

There has been an absolute miracle.

It has rained 1.65 inches

of rain today.

We have over 2 inches now in the storm,

and it is not stopping.

It may hit 3 inches of rain.

It went from a trickle to a flood.

And it's amazing.

And we have a really,

really great chance

of a run of fish for the animals.

And what is even more miraculous,

according to my radio,

it is not raining much

around anywhere else

but around here.

Oops.

Well, it's now after 2:00

on October 4.

And the tent has caved in

due to the storm.

I'm still here with my little teddy bear,

Tabitha bear.

And I think the storm's actually

gotten a little weaker, but

in the course of it getting stronger,

it crushed the wall in and bent the poles.

And you really can't do much about it

because once they get like that,

they just stay kind of bent in

and you're screwed and all that.

This is my life.

This is what I do.

And l... I love it. I love it.

Even this, I love it.

My tent crushed in. I love it.

It's pathetic, but I love it.

Hello, hello, hello

Are you scared, little bear?

The storm's gonna go on

and on and on.

It doesn't look like I may get outta here

for another week or so.

Oh, look at this. I put my tripod

up to shore up the tent.

I put a pole up there, so now I got a tent.

That's a pretty good idea, huh?

Aha! Pretty good for me.

We have about 35,000 brown

grizzly bears here in Alaska.

What we can tell, it's a very healthy population,

it's a stable population.

Of course, you have to be careful with bears

because they have unique needs,

especially the grizzly bear.

They need large areas.

They have low reproductive rates.

You have to be cautious in the way

you utilize those animals.

Bear hunting, as an example,

is a very important aspect

of the economy.

$4,500,000 a year

is spent on bear hunts.

Here on Kodiak Island

we have about 3,000 bears.

Each year we harvest

about 160 of those.

Through our research, we found that you can

harvest about 6% of the population annually

and still have

a healthy group of bears.

And poaching?

Poaching is not as big

a concern around here

as it has been in Russia, for instance,

and some other locations.

There is some poaching

that occurs for gall bladders

or some bears that

are just killed wantonly

because people don't like them

or they're afraid of them.

But for the most part, here on Kodiak

and on the Alaska peninsula,

it is a very rare occurrence

in the last 20 years.

Despite the statistics,

Treadwell became

increasingly paranoid

about his enemy, the poacher.

And it's gotten to be September,

near October.

It's the time of year

where poachers can come around.

It's time for me to go in my guerrilla-style

camouflage outfit.

Downey still recognizes me

by talking to her. Don't you?

Yeah, I'm the big crazy guy with the...

or the skinny crazy guy

with the camouflage makeup on.

They're armed with pepper spray

and rocks.

In all his video recordings

over the years,

this is Treadwell's closest

encounter with intruders.

I believe the guide is the person

with the camera.

The big camera on the tripod.

There we go. Got a nice close-up of him.

He's the one who threw the rock

at Freckles, the bear.

It's Quincy.

They're throwing rocks at him.

They're throwing rocks

at my Quincy.

They're gonna stone him,

and then they're gonna photograph him.

Oh, that's it!

That's enough of this.

That's... I can... They hit Quincy.

I don't wanna expose myself

to them.

I'm submitting this

as Sunday, August 1.

It is 4:
35 and 18 seconds

on this day.

It's hard to say,

but it's a warning of a sort.

And it's obviously here

to upset me.

"Hi, Timothy.

See you in summer of 2001."

Now it doesn't say, "Hi, Timothy.

We're gonna f***ing kill you."

It doesn't say, "Hi, Timothy. You're f***ing

dead. We're gonna chop your legs off.

Hey, Timothy,

get the f*** out."

It just says, "See you

in the summer of 2001."

But it is some sort

of a warning.

It is some sort of a ha-ha.

I don't think it's friendly.

Well, it's gotten

a little worse here.

The warning, "Hi, Timothy.

See you summer of 2001."

Now I find this big stack of rocks that were,

you know, put some labor here.

We're not calling this

the building of the pyramids.

But we are saying

there's a bit of trouble.

Now, I'm gonna walk back,

I'm gonna bring you back here.

Through my camp.

Let's come through here. Pathway.

Here's where...

Here's where the sign was, here.

Which is where my tent is.

And then we go over where

my bear-proof barrels would be.

And we find boulders piled up...

Boulders piled up

and a happy face indelibly

painted into the rock,

like looking at me.

Very, very frickin' frightening, huh?

Whoever put it there,

knew what they were doing.

It's a warning.

And the thing is, it's better

than a warning, than...

It's better than like,

"You're f***ing dead" type of thing.

It's creepy, baby!

It's creepy.

It's Freddy Krueger creepy.

There were visitors

every now and then.

But for Treadwell,

they were just intruders.

An encroaching threat upon what

he considered his Eden.

Even the Park Service itself

became an enemy

because of its restrictions.

I have decided to violate

a federal rule

which states

I must camp one mile...

Every week I must move one mile after

staying for seven consecutive days.

If I was to do that,

I would not be able to study these bears,

not be able to protect them.

I'd have to move out of the bay

to get a mile out.

Therefore I have decided to protest

the United States government

and guard these bears anyway

and stay, and I have...

In order to get around the rule of not

camping permanently in one spot,

he would camouflage and hide

his tent from the Park Service.

But more than that,

he was in constant violation

of another very reasonable

park rule:

That you have to maintain at least 100 yards

distance from the bears.

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