Conservation Awards & Gratitude Breakfast 2025

Please join us in honoring the 2025 Conservation Award Recipients at Bear Yuba Land Trust’s annual Conservation Awards & Gratitude Breakfast. Together we will pay tribute to the year’s distinguished Conservation Heroes who have led the way in conserving open spaces and enriching our community’s connection with the land.

William Nickerl Award for Conservation Leadership: Don & Barbara Rivenes

John Skinner Sierra Outdoors Recreation Award: Mary West

Business Supporter of the Year: Marsha Burch

Partner of the Year: Nevada County Resource Conservation District

Volunteer of the Year: Julie Herrlinger

Young Leader Award: Young Composers Project

Share in the gratitude at this celebratory event featuring a ceremony to the honorees and a breakfast from Purdon Studios with a no-host bar of your favorite brunch cocktails.

KNOW & GO

WHAT: Bear Yuba Land Trust’s Conservation Awards & Gratitude Breakfast 2025

WHEN: Saturday, November 15, 2025; 9:30am-11:30am

WHERE: Miners Foundry, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City

TICKETS: $50/$45 member (For member discount, use promotional code MEMBER at checkout). In honor of Nisenan Heritage Month we are donating $1 of each ticket purchase to the Nisenan Ancestral Homelands Reciprocity Program.

INFO/QUESTIONS: Call Communications Manager, Annette Muller, at (530) 272-5994 x 208; or email her at [email protected].

Host or Publisher Bear Yuba Land Trust