Pratte, Tom
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Soft-spoken but hard-charging environmentalist from Huntington Beach, California; the original executive director of the Surfrider Foundation; often described as the "father of surf environmentalism." Pratte was born in 1948, began surfing in the early '60s, and graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S. in a self-designed program called coastal studies. In the early '70s he took a nonpa...
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Building Pratte's Reef, El Segundo, 2000Subscribe to view
Tom Pratte. Photo: Aaron ChangSubscribe to view
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Building Pratte's Reef, El Segundo, 2000
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Tom Pratte. Photo: Aaron Chang