Beth Pratt-Bergstrom

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Beth Pratt-Bergstrom has worked in environmental leadership roles for over twenty-five years. As the California director for the National Wildlife Federation, she says, “I have the best job in the world—advocating for the state's remarkable animals.” Her conservation work has been featured by <i>The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal</i>, BBC World Service, <i>CBS This Morning</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and NPR, and she has written for CNN.com, <i>Boom: A Journal of California, Yellowstone Discovery, Yosemite Journal</i>, and <i>Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite</i>. She is the author of the novel <i>The Idea of Forever</i> and the official <i>Junior Ranger Handbook</i> for Yosemite. Beth lives outside of Yosemite with her husband, four dogs, two cats, and the wildlife that frequents her NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat backyard.