Honoring Louis Bacon with The Audubon Medal

and

George Archibald with The Inaugural Dan W. Lufkin Prize

Tom Brokaw to Emcee

Bette Midlerto Sing

The National Audubon SocietyGala Dinner

Golden Eagle

Fiona & Stanley DruckenmillerSonia & Paul Tudor Jones II The Lufkin Family FoundationBarbara & David RouxPeter Jay Sharp FoundationLucy Waletzky, M.D.

Whooping Crane

Barbara & Joseph Ellis

Sandhill Crane

Eva & Glenn DubinJuliet & Holt ThrasherToyota

Wood Thrush

S. D. Bechtel, Jr. FoundationLori Cohen & Graham Arader Margot & John ErnstHeather HensonIreland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC Middlebury CollegeLiza & John Nugent Alexia & Baird Ryan Daphne & Ernest Scalamandre Turner Foundation, Inc.Jane Smith Turner Foundation

Piping Plover

Diana & Terry Betteridge Janet & Christopher Brady Anne BrownRobert W. Johnson IV Charitable Trust Alexis Maybank Devon & Glenn Olsen Nathaniel Pryor ReedMarine & Alex Zagoreos

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Cover Image plate 261 Sandhill Crane, New-York Historical Society Edition, Donated by Joel Oppenheimer Gallery.

National Audubon Society

For more than a century, Audubon has built a legacy of conservation success by mobilizing the strength of its network of members, Chapters, Audubon Centers, state offices, and dedicated professional staff to connect people with nature and the power to protect it. Now entering its second century, Audubon is rolling out a new strategic vision that focuses all our resources on protecting the most threatened species of birds by preserving the habitats that support them throughout their life cycles and, with such preservation, serves to focus attention on broad and significant national policy.

Board of Directors

B. Holt Thrasher – Chair

President & CEODavid Yarnold

Leigh AltadonnaJon AndaA. Peter Cannon, Jr.Mary McDermott CookAlan R. DolanJoseph EllisMargot P. ErnstDavid B. FordFrank GillDavid B. HartwellJoy HesterAlexis Maybank Allen J. ModelJane-Kerin Moffat

Peggy MontañoHector E. Morales, Jr. Jess MortonKristi PattersonTerry L. RootDavid RouxHugh SimmonsMarina SkumanichMichael StolperDouglas VarleyVictor D. Vidales IIIAlan WilsonAlexander E. Zagoreos

The National Audubon Society Cordially Invites You to its

Gala Dinner

Honoring

Louis Bacon

with the

Audubon Medal

and

George Archibald

with the Inaugural

Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership

Thursday, January 17, 2013 The Plaza Hotel, New York City

Cocktails 6:30 pm

Dinner 7:30 pm

Awards 8:30 pm

Tom Brokaw to Emcee

Bette Midlerto Sing

Festive Attire

For more information call 212-979-3168 or email events@audubon.org

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Audubon Medal 2013 Awardee – Louis Bacon

The Audubon Medal is given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection. The Medal is one of the highest honors in conservation and only 51 people have received it. Recipients have included Rachel Carson, Robert Redford, Ted Turner, Edward O. Wilson, Julie Packard, the Rockefeller family, and Donal O’Brien Jr. among others. Louis Bacon has been advocating for more than twenty years for conservation and protection of natural resources, in the United States and abroad. Raised as an avid outdoor sportsman, Louis developed a reverence for the natural world, which spurred his lifelong passion for land and water conservation. In 1992, he created The Moore Charitable Foundation to support organizations that preserve and protect wildlife habitat. Since its inception, the foundation has provided significant funding to more than 200 local, national and international conservation organizations. Mr. Bacon’s conservation achievements include his campaign to preserve Clifton Point, Bahamas and create the Bahamas Clifton Heritage Park; his donation of a conservation easement and development of a habitat restoration and management plan on Robins Island, Long Island, that will preserve the island as a haven for endangered shorebirds including least terns and piping plover; the restoration of an extensive habitat of rice fields, marshes and Long leaf pine forest at Orton Plantation in North Carolina, which will increase the populations of egrets, herons and the endangered Red-cockaded woodpecker to the area; and support of efforts to protect the Everglades, key to wading birds like the Roseate Spoonbill. He is a leading supporter of the National Audubon Society, its field operations and numerous state chapters. In June of 2012, Mr. Bacon announced he will donate a nearly 90,000-acre conservation easement on his Blanca Ranch in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), protecting a key corridor of pristine wildlife habitat. This donation, along with a second easement gift of 77,000 acres of his adjoining Trinchera Ranch, constitutes the largest easement ever made to FWS. It is the first step in the formal establishment of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area as the nation’s 558th unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System and sets a precedent for others to follow in the future. Mr. Bacon is the founder and CEO of Moore Capital Management, LP and received his B.A. in American Literature from Middlebury College and his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership

2013 Awardee – George Archibald

The Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership was created to recognize Dan W. Lufkin’s lifetime commitment to the environment. He has lent his expertise and directed his philanthropy to many of the most effective conservation organizations across the country. Dan has served on the Boards of The National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, the National Park Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Quebec-Labrador Foundation, the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and the Conservation Fund. He served as Connecticut’s first Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection and was one of the founders of Earth Day in 1970. The Dan W. Lufkin Prize was developed to honor individuals with a similar passion for the environment who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment and on-the-ground conservation. George Archibald is the first Lufkin Prize awardee. As founder of the International Crane Foundation (ICF), he has devoted his life to protecting cranes and their ecosystems around the world and helping thousands of people to understand, and be inspired by, the global significance of bird conservation. In 1973, with fellow Cornell University student Ron Sauey, George Archibald founded ICF, which, since then, has grown to be a world-renowned organization. Under George’s leadership ICF has successfully bred 14 of the 15 species of cranes both for reintroduction and educational purposes, established research and conservation leadership training programs throughout the globe, and hosted dozens of workshops with participants from 22 countries designed to foster the cross-border conservation cooperation needed for these migratory species. The education, mentoring, and support provided to colleagues in these countries has helped in the protection of over six million hectares in Russia alone and the establishment of more than 100 nature reserves, for the benefit of cranes and other wildlife. Most importantly, Dr. Archibald is a true conservation ambassador who uses his own unique brand of “crane diplomacy” to work in sensitive places, persuading countries and people to come together behind habitat and bird protection efforts. From Buddhist monks in Bhutan who see cranes as spiritual beings, to Chinese officials balancing economic development and land conservation, George is able to connect people through the magic of cranes and leverage their interests into effective conservation actions worldwide.

Gala Committee

Chairs Gabrielle Bacon Zack BaconFiona & Stanley DruckenmillerSonia & Paul Tudor Jones IIElaine & Ken LangoneCynthia & Dan W. Lufkin

Co-Chairs Diana & Terry Betteridge Margaret Lufkin BishopJanet & Christopher Brady Marianne & John K. CastleMaria Cuomo Cole & Kenneth Cole

Elaine & Ralph CrockerLucy & Mike DanzigerEva & Glenn DubinBarbara & Joseph EllisMargot and John ErnstAlison Lufkin FaberDavid B. FordElise Lufkin GalpinPaul Gould Anne & Hall Healy Richard H. JenretteLinda & Ben LambertLeonard LauderBeth & Jimmy Lee Sharon & John LoebAbigail LufkinSimone & Chris Mailman Hector Morales, Jr.Alexis Maybank John Peterson Myers, Ph.D.Pat NoonanEd Norton

Sukey & Michael NovogratzLiza & John Nugent Katie & Donal O’Brien, Jr.Susan & Alan Patricof Lillian & Norman PeckRegina PhelpsAshley & Ogden PhippsNathaniel Pryor ReedAllison Rockefeller Gloria Rubin & Michael FuxAlexia & Baird RyanSusan Sarandon Daphne & Ernest Scalamandre Laura Turner Seydel & Rutherford Seydel

Mary & Ian Snow Susan & Peter J. SolomonJuliet & Holt ThrasherJeff Trandahl Beau TurnerRhett TurnerElizabeth & Skiddy von Stade* In formation

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