Josh Jackson and Obi Kaufmann, both authors of Heyday publications, in conversation about California’s environmental saga at Clio’s in Oakland.

353 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA. Admission + Book $40/person. Admission + Drink $15/person.

Josh Jackson is a writer, photographer, and leading voice for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Through this evocative Forgotten Lands Project, Josh employs immersive storytelling and striking visual narratives to inspire appreciation and engagement with our least understood, least protected, and largely unknown landscapes. His advocacy work has been featured by the Los Angeles Times, SFGate, and the Nature’s Archive podcast. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands is his first book. Find more of his work at forgottenlandsproject.com.

Obi Kaufmann is the author of the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller The California Field Atlas, the first of a series of ambitious volumes that interpret California’s natural world through poetic prose, natural history, and Kaufmann’s signature watercolor paintings. He is the author of the California Lands Trilogy—The Forests of California, The Coasts of California, and The Deserts of California—and two volumes meditating on the state’s natural resources, The State of Water and most recently The State of Fire, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Find more of his work at coyotethunder.com.