Tickets: $40 (includes book)
Location: Red Barn 75 Bear Valley Road Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Obi Kaufmann discusses his latest book, The State of Fire: Why California Burns (Heyday Books), at this event presented by the Point Reyes National Seashore Association and Point Reyes Books.
Each ticket purchase includes a copy of The State of Fire. Proceeds go to PRNSA, supporting work in education, conservation, and community building in Point Reyes.
If you have any questions, please contact Ashley Hebert at ashleyh@ptreyes.org.
About The State of Fire
How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.
Fire is an essential part of California's ecology. Humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of years. But today many Californians' relationship to fire is one of fear. Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, now asks: How do we live with fire? What makes fire essentail to a healthy and biodiverse Golden State, and how do we benefit from it's teachings? With the same solution-minded ethic as his much-admired The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource, Kaufmann presents fire as a force of regeneration rather than apcalypse. He considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons we can learn from California's largest fires of recent decades.
Packed with Kaufmann's signature watercolor maps and paintings, The State of Fire confronts one of California's most pressing social and ecological challenges. From this maelstrom Kaufmann emergest to share a deepened love for the natural world-- and a refreshingly hopeful vision of California's future.
About Obi Kaufmann
Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), and The Deserts of California (2023), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com. He lives in Oakland, CA.