OK, rumour has it that he based his life on the legendary exploites of Doug Peacock, after reading his book.."Grizzly Years". Doug was a SF medical MOS in the 'Nam, became disenfranchised with whatever during that time and when he got out he headed to the boonies of my stomping grounds now, Montana and chunks of Wyoming. The only difference between he and Doug, is that Doug is still living in Livingston, Montana as far as I know.
Doug became fascinated with Ursus Horribilis, what we call now, slug-gun bait..aka Grizzlies. Only Doug did it smart though. Doug never got anybody killed in the process and never had to have one put down in his behalf on his own stupidity. Read the book, even as a Conservatives, which I think most of us here are..you all will enjoy..with some slight tones which are directed to the Gov's policys of that war (Vietnam).
Tim Treadwell was an organ donor waiting to happen, pure and simple. If I show my ass to a porcupine enough, I wouldn't expect my wife at 3 in the morning to pick the quills out with tweezers and some needlenose pliers. Neither should we as Darwin supporters on his behalf.
As stated before, his faux pas was getting an innocent person, and as far as I'm concerned, an innocent bear that was just doing what it was programmed to do do, killed.
Ma' Nature=2
Organ Donor=0
..works every time if you like it or not.