A New Vision for Restoring the Hetch Hetchy Valley
The following presentation was made at the Restore Hetch Hetchy fundraising event at the Berkeley City Club on Saturday, March 17th, 2018 by Obi Kaufmann: Making good sense of anything […]
Protecting the California Desert /// ANZA BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK
(note: below is an exerpt I gave to the ANZA BORREGO FOUNDATION gathering on March 3rd, 2018 in Borrego Springs, California. Scroll past that to read the transcript of my interview with […]
Tour Notes from the Dry Winter of 2018
It is hard to know what to think of the weather. The warm and dry weather has us Californians fretting over living in a place that we have tricked now […]
Geographic Literacy & the Watersheds of the Peninsula
I often say that I don’t have any prophetic truths about where and how the state of California conservation and ecology is going to unfold in the next 100 years. […]
My Favorite Books of the Year
My favorite books of the year By Obi Kaufmann 12/30/2017 I started this list (or is it an essay?) with some rules in mind, and now I think I am […]
Land Trusts in California – The way forward in land conservation
Land Trusts: The way forward in Land Conservation in California By Obi Kaufmann There is beauty in the Land Trust model. When arguably most of the overall environmental movement has […]
Conservation in California and the American West Right Now
Conservation in California and the American West Right Now 11/30/2017 by Obi Kaufmann When only a couple of years ago we were celebrating the addition of five National Monuments to […]
December Book Tour for the Sold Out Best-Seller
With the selling out of the first printing of the book, I’ve needed to postpone a few dates on my continuing book tour to support and celebrate the California Field […]
Obi Kaufmann in the San Francisco Chronicle
by Sophia Markoulakis On the morning of Oct. 11, Obi Kaufmann was wrapping up the first leg of his book tour en route to the Lost Coast. Days later, he gave […]
Behind the Making of the California Field Atlas
Behind the making of the California Field Atlas Let me start with this image – a “What I think I do” meme – they were popular a couple of years […]
Sunset Magazine & Juxtapoz Magazine
Obi Kaufmann & the California Field Atlas in Sunset Magazine, November 2017 Obi Kaufmann & the California Field Atlas in Juxtapoz Magazine, November 2017
Resiliency, a wildlands presentation
Resiliency By Obi Kaufmann For the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center Delivered Saturday 10.14.17, the Armory, Ashland, Oregon First, thank you, people of Oregon and perhaps some here, people of Northern California […]
What is the California Field Atlas?
The California Field Atlas is a love story. California is the land where I was born and having spent a happy life walking through its forests and sleeping out under […]
BOOK TOUR -TRACKING THUNDERBIRDS
We are about to embark on the book tour for the California Field Atlas, which ships from HEYDAY in the next week or so. It is an incredibly dynamic time […]
The Ghostdancer Interview
Interview with Obi Kaufmann by @theghostdancer Rhiannon Griego http://www.ghostdancercollection.com/blog Wilderness preservationist, illustrator, poet and artist Obi Kaufmann is this week’s maker. Obi and I have been circulating one another’s work for […]
Indigofera Jeans x Coyote Thunder collaboration
Indigofera Jeans x Coyote Thunder collaboration Personality and place comingle in the latest offering from Indigofera jeans. Working for over a year with California artist Obi Kaufmann, the Stockholm-based outfitters […]
