In Extreme

Extremists are seldom completely correct in their heavily slanted line of thought, but these individuals frequently serve as a flag post or rather a marker of subtle ideals which most should heed. Take for instance the life and work of Timothy Treadwell, a self-proclaimed naturalist and activist for “grizzly bears and their habitat worldwide”, who abandoned society and all of its cumbersome rules, regulations, and addictions to lead a life serving creatures whom some may say were in little need of help. During the thirteen summers Timothy spent living among the grizzly bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska he championed the lives of animals above even his own. A great deal of criticism has been generated in reviewing the conduct of this intriguing, seemingly mad, recluse and many of the comments shadow Timothy’s life with shades of mental illness. Yet in review one message remains brutally clear in that Timothy Treadwell believed in protecting his beloved bears and their environment, and in doing so he has reiterated the timeless message of “thinking globally and acting locally” in extreme.