May 21st | Wilderness Spirit Brunch Honoring Beth Pratt
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Join us At the Craft House at Corque For A Brunch To Remember
Sunday, May 21st, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
General Admission Tickets $150 | VIP Tickets $250*
*VIP Reception with Beth Pratt begins at 10:15 a.m. for VIP ticket holders & sponsors
We are delighted to invite you to join us for our Wilderness Spirit Brunch at the beautiful Craft House at Corque in Solvang on Sunday, May 21st, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.!
Don’t miss an event to remember as we honor Beth Pratt, a lifelong wildlife advocate and California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, along with famed cougar P-22. VIP ticket holders will enjoy a pre-reception mixer with Beth before we savor a delicious brunch buffet, complete with a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar. Plus, participate in a fun live auction featuring a once-in-a-lifetime Alaskan cruise, a relaxing Santa Ynez Valley getaway with gourmet wine and dining outings, and much more!
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About Beth Pratt | 2023 Wilderness Spirit Award Honoree
Beth Pratt at the groundbreaking of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, April 22, 2022. Photo courtesy Beth Pratt.
A lifelong advocate for wildlife, Beth Pratt has worked in environmental leadership roles for over twenty-five years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. As the California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, she says, “I have the best job in the world—advocating for the state’s remarkable wildlife.” Although most of her career has been spent in national parks, she now focuses most of her work on helping wildlife and people thrive together in cities.
As part of her conservation work with the National Wildlife Federation, Pratt leads the #SaveLACougars campaign to build the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which broke ground on Earth Day, April 22, 2022. The largest wildlife crossing of its kind in the world, it will help save a population of mountain lions from extinction. Her innovative conservation work has been featured by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC World Service, CBS This Morning, the Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, The Guardian, NPR, AP News, and more. A recent AP story featuring Beth’s work on building the wildlife crossing received over a billion media impressions worldwide.
Di Angelo Publications released her new book, I Heart Wildlife: A Guided Activity Journal for Connecting With the Wild World, in 2020, and Heyday Books published When Mountain Lions are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out In California in 2016. Her new book, Yosemite Wildlife, will be published by the Yosemite Conservancy in 2024. Beth has also contributed essays to the books The Nature of Yosemite: A Visual Journey, and Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite. She also has given a TEDx talk about coexisting with wildlife called, “How a Lonely Cougar in Los Angeles Inspired the World,” and is featured in the documentary, “The Cat that Changed America.”
Beth spends much of her time in Los Angeles, but makes her home outside of Yosemite, “my north star,” with her five dogs, two cats, and the mountain lions, bears, foxes, and other wildlife that frequent her backyard.
Special Thanks To Our Event Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
Table Sponsors
Pete & Becky Adams
Allan Hancock College
Louise Clarke & John Carbon
Robert & Belinda Hart
Kathleen Kalp & Jim Balsitis
Bob & Ellen Lilley
Rich & Janice Nagler
Northern Trust
Kevin & Terrie Patterson
Gail & Jan Persoon
Judy & Jack Stapelmann