I went to a talk he did in Canmore a couple years ago. He is not nearly so crazy as the Grizzly Man. That bear in the picture beside him is one he rescued from a zoo as a cub, and is one of the ones he is working to integrate into the wild. The guy has been working successfully with bears for so long it would be silly to dismiss him as crazy just because he suggests bears aren't necessarily dangerous.
His ideas are controversial and very much debatable, but he's not crazy. And he's absolutely right, IMO, that the problems between bears and people are caused by us, not them.
Violent encounters with bears are the rare exception, not the norm, and usually happen for a reason.
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