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Book signing & talk with Obi Kaufmann — The State of the Fire: Why California Burns

Santa Barbara City College Cliff Dr Santa Barbara CA USA
  • Event date:
    20/02/2025 at 6:30 pm
  • Event end:
    20/02/2025 at 9:00 pm
  • FREE
    Event cost

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents…

Book signing and talk with author Obi Kaufmann —
The State of the Fire: Why California Burns

WHEN: Thurs 20 Feb 2025 — 6:30 pm
Cost: FREE
WHERE: Fe Bland Auditorium West Campus S.B. City College, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Followed by an Interactive Community Panel & SB Poet Laureate Melinda Palaclo.

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 used 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 essential to a healthy and biodiverse Golden State, and how do we benefit from its teachings?

Kaufmann presents fire as a force of regeneration rather than apocalypse. 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.

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