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Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. Today we are speaking with

Obey Kauffman. In every single cell of us, we are the land, we are the river. We are physiologically

interconnected in a potentially infinite life. So how could we understand that? How could we

quantify that? How could we leave that? Because that is wholly terrestrial in nature.

That is our interconnection to the biosphere process of evolution that there is no

removing us from.

Obey Kauffman is an award-winning author of many best-selling books on California's ecology,

biodiversity, and geography. Obey's signature style is as artful as it is analytic,

combining masterful renderings of wildlife, hand-painted maps, and data-driven storytelling

to present a hopeful and integrated vision of California's future. An avid conservationist,

Obey Kauffman regularly travels around the state, presenting his work and vision of ecological

restoration, and preservation from the Klamath Sysky Wildland Center to the Mojave Desert Land Trust.

Most recently, Obey was the artist and residence for the National Park Service at Whiskey Town

National Recreation Area. You can catch him every month in conversation with author and tribal

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