Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents…
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:
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.