Obi Kaufmann is the author of the number one San Francisco Chronicle bestseller The California Field Atlas (2017), The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Natural Resource (2019), The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas (2020), The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas (2022), and The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas (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 on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available here and his essays are posted here.
Obi Kaufmann
Articles
What, Then, Is Natural?
Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
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