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Los Angeles Times Bestseller
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 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.
Packed with Kaufmann's signature watercolor maps and paintings, The State of Fire confronts one of California's most pressing social and ecological challenges. From this maelstrom Kaufmann emerges to share a deepened love for the natural world—and a refreshingly hopeful vision of California's future.
Contents
Introduction
Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown
Map—Carr Fire and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Map—California Counties
Map—National Forests in California
Map—California's Major Watersheds
Part One: Fire History
Endemic/Indigenous Pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California
Pyrodiversity and Biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response
A Tragedy of Misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild
Cultural Fire on the Land: Traditional ecological knowledge
Colonial Conflagration: Genocide and ecocide
The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different
The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century
Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions
Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions
Map—Central Coast Region
Map—Santa Barbara Coast and Mountain Region
Map—South Coast Region with Transverse and Peninsula Ranges
Map—California's Southeastern Deserts
Map—Southern Sierra Nevada
Map—Northern Sierra Nevada
Map—Northeast Region and Cascade Ranges
Part Two: Fire Ecology
Cascading Patterns and Emergence: The (new) ecology of fire
Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release
Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology
—North Coast and North Coast Ranges Bioregion
—Klamath Mountain Bioregion
—Southern Cascades Bioregion
—Northeastern Plateaus Bioregion
—Sierra Nevada Bioregion
—Central Valley Bioregion
—South Coast Bioregion
—Southern Eastern Deserts Bioregion
Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals
Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants
Part Three: Fire Principles
World on Fire: California climate breakdown by the numbers
Fire Is the Hunter: Human culpability, fire threat, and fire design
A Policy of Prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire
Repair, Restore, and Reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance
Between Tradition and Innovation: A better story for fire
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
