UCSB Lecture Series: How Do We Live With Fire?
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Date & Time
Thu, Jun 05 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
Address (map)
552 University Rd, Santa Barbara
Venue
Henley Hall
552 University Rd,
Santa Barbara, CA 93117This event is free and open to the public. Please register through this link. Books will be available for purchase.
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 essential to a healthy and biodiverse Golden State, and how do we benefit from its 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 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.
Obi Kaufmann is the author of several award-winning, bestselling books on California’s ecology, biodiversity, and geography. The Deserts of California won the 2024 Golden Poppy Award for California Lifestyle from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. A lifelong resident of California, Kaufmann makes his home base in Oakland when he isn’t backpacking. You can catch him every month in conversation with author and tribal chairman Greg Sarris on their podcast, Place and Purpose, and you can follow his work on Instagram @coyotethunder.
