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The Grizzly Gulch is a wildlife
refuge being created by kids for creatures. Read the story of Grizzly
Gulch, step by step.
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- Chris and Martin receive a letter and a check for $3.19 cents from
Katie O'Connor asking the brothers to use the money to save animals. |
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- Inspired by Katie and letters from other cool creature-loving
kids, Chris and Martin set-up the Kratt Brothers Creature Hero Society,
a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering kids to help creatures. |
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- Chris and Martin launch Kratt Brothers Creature Hero Tour
1999! They do a live show in 10 cities. Over 100,000 kids and parents
come out to see them. Zoos donate $1 for each person who comes out.
In that way kids raise $120,000 for Creature Hero Fund. The question
is "What creatures will this money help?" |
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- Chris and Martin ask kids around the country "What North American
animals do you want to save?" Kids send in their answers via
letters and e-mail. Grizzly bears, gray wolves, and panthers top the
list - with grizzly bears getting the most votes! |
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- Chris and Martin, with the help of The
Nature Conservancy of Montana, start looking for some land we
can protect as a home for wild grizzly bears. They creature adventure
through remote wilderness areas looking for that perfect spot. |
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- Eureka! The brothers discover an amazing grizzly bear spot nestled
between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains. Mother grizzlies
love it as a place to safely raise their new born cubs. The problem
is, the land costs over $1,000,000. The Kratt Brothers Creature Heroes
have raised $120,000 so far - an excellent start, but not enough!
Land developers are looking at the land -they'd ruin it for the grizzlies!
Un-oh! The pressure is on! |
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- The Kratt Brothers Creature Hero Society receives a loan of over
$1 million. Chris, Martin, and the Creature Heroes purchase the land
and name it Grizzly Gulch a Kratt Brothers Creaturefuge! But now we
have to raise the money to pay back the loan, so Grizzly Gulch can
be saved for all time. |
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- Old Navy comes in to help. This company sponsors a 10 city zoo tour
called Kratt Brothers Zoo Tour 2000. Old Navy donates $2 for each
person who comes to see the Kratt Brother's show and sells special
hats and T-shirts. The really cool thing is, over 150,000 kids and
parents turn-out and over half a million dollars is raised! The action
of kids made this fund-raising possible. |
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- A one-year old grizzly bear cub wanders too close to a town. State
bear biologists catch him and look for a place to release him into
the wilderness. Chris and Martin say, "Grizzly Gulch is the perfect
spot!" The brothers release the young grizzly onto the land.
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- Kids do their own fund-raising! |
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- A herd of over 400 elk winter on Grizzly Gulch! |
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