Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents

The State of Fire; Why California Burns
Talk & Book Signing
with Award Winning Author Obi Kaufmann

Thursday, February 20, 6:30–8:30pm, 2025, FREE

Location: Fe Bland Auditorium/BC Forum
SBCC West Campus, 800 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

Joined by a panel of Community Members &
special guest: Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, Melinda Palacio

Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network on Thursday, February 20, for a special evening with naturalist, illustrator, and award winning author Obi Kaufmann, sharing his timely book The State of Fire, Why California Burns.

From the creator of The California Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann shares a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope. Fire is an essential part of California’s ecology and humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of years. But today many Californians’ relationship to fire is primarily one of fear.

The free event takes place at the Fe Bland Auditorium/BC Forum on the Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) West Campus on Thursday, February 20, 6:30–8:30 pm. For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org, margie@sbpermaculture.org, 805-962-257.

Community Panel Members include:
Ray Ford, Santa Barbara County backcountry author, photographer & journalist; Betty Seaman, Natural Builder, Spirit Pine; Cooper Lienhart, Nature’s Design & SLO Beaver Brigade;
Em Johnson Community Environmental Council (CEC) Director of Climate Programs

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Cosponsors: Community Environmental Council (CEC); Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade; SBCC Environmental Horticulture, & Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
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