In Deep Radio - BETH PRATT-BERGSTROM


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Angie Coiro - In Deep Radio live at Kepler's

Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 12:00  p.m. 

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Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Show starts promptly at 12:00 p.m!

 

Featured Guest: 

Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California

 

When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors celebrates stories of people and wildlife thriving together—sometimes in the unlikeliest of places. Written by National Wildlife Federation’s California Director, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, the new release is an entertaining read of true tales about people and wildlife championing a new paradigm for conservation: coexistence.

Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that on the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg and his staff have provided a home for an endearing family of wild gray foxes, or that wolves have returned to California after a 90-year absence, led by the remarkable journey of the wolf OR-7When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors shares a few dozen stories highlighting the work of individuals, groups, organizations, and communities throughout California that help foster place-based connections for wildlife to thrive alongside people, even in highly urbanized areas.

Many do not realize that California, with its many successful wildlife stories, provides a great example in understanding ways that people can conserve and better co-exist with wildlife that can function as a model worldwide. This “new nature” is personal, urban, social, and diverse, and California has given birth to it.
 

Beth Pratt-Bergstrom has worked in environmental leadership roles for more than 25 years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. Her conservation work has been featured by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, BBC World Service, CBS This Morning, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR, and she has written for CNN.comBoom: A Journal of California,Yellowstone DiscoveryYosemite Journal, and many others. She is the author of the novel The Idea of Forever and the official Junior Ranger Handbook for Yosemite. Beth lives outside of Yosemite, “my north star,” with her husband, four dogs, two cats, and the mountain lions, bears, foxes, frogs, and other wildlife that frequent her NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat backyard

 

 

 

 

 

Event date: 
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 12:00pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349