She and her husband Bill have been volunteers with the Birds of Prey Northwest for over five years, and with this new commitment to serve on the board Patti looks forward to expanding her support. Maries was getting connected to Birds of Prey Northwest and coming to know Janie and Don Veltcamp. But the most unique and educational opportunity she experienced since moving to St. She has done mission work in Haiti, helped lead fundraisers for local food programs to feed our community and served on the Better Care Board (the fundraising arm for the local community Hospital). She and her husband Bill left Colorado in 2007 and fell in love with the northwest beginning first in Omak, Washington.īesides raising a family and becoming a life coach, Patti has served as a community leader in her church and various other organizations. Along with raising three children, she found time to ski, ride horses, help with a cattle drive or two as well as learn to love the diversity of birds and animals in the west. It was there that she and her family discovered their deep love for the outdoors. She moved along with her husband and three children to the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado in 1994. Patti grew up on the East Coast in North Carolina. Our goals are met through program fees, grants, sale of books and other educational materials, and private donations, with 100% of our annual budget going towards our mission. Her pioneering leadership of the team that engineered a 3D-printed prosthetic beak for Beauty the Bald Eagle, and her co-authorship of the award-winning children's book Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle, have brought Birds of Prey Northwest’s work to worldwide attention. With dedicated board members, core staff, volunteers of all ages, and longtime and new partners, she is guiding Birds of Prey Northwest into the future, including state, regional and national education outreach, and state-of-the-art rehabilitation facilities and techniques. Janie's early work helping reintroduce endangered Peregrine Falcons to urban sites led her to realize the unique position birds of prey hold as both powerful educators and bioindicators of ecological systems. In 2022, Birds of Prey Northwest will celebrate its 29th year as a nonprofit founded by raptor biologist and executive director Janie Veltkamp in St. Birds of Prey Northwest’s mission is to educate the public about birds of prey, through on-site and virtual live raptor presentations and other expanding outreach, and provide medical treatment to injured, sick, and orphaned wild raptors with the goal of returning them to the wild.

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