NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Join Tuleyome for its annual fundraiser on March 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St., Davis.

This year's event will focus on celebrating public lands as 2014 is both the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, and the 150th anniversary of California's State Parks.

At this event, guests will enjoy heavy appetizers prepared by Inspiration Catering, along with beer, wine soft drinks and dessert.

The evening event will also include a silent auction, a few words from author and keynote speaker, Doug Scott, and a short awards presentation to announce Tuleyome's Donor of the Year, the Volunteer of the Year, and the Anne Schneider Lifetime Achievement Award.

Proceeds go directly to benefit Tuleyome's programs and efforts to protect extraordinary wild places in the region, get youth and families outdoors, and promote land stewardship through habitat restoration, invasive species eradication, abandoned mine remediation, and trail building and maintenance.

In the past, Tuleyome spearheaded the formal California State Wild and Scenic River designation for upper Cache Creek and worked with local Congressmen to designate Cedar Roughs/Cache Creek Wilderness Areas and additions to Snow Mountain Wilderness.

The nonprofit’s current major campaign is to permanently protect the Berryessa Snow Mountain region This includes 350,000 acres of federal public lands in Yolo, Lake, Napa, Mendocino and Solano counties in northern California.

For more information, or to purchase tickets for this event, please visit www.tuleyome.org .