Napa-Solano Audubon Presents: Beauty & the Beast - California Wildflowers and Climate Change

Nita Winter & Rob Badger are authors of the 12-time, award winning, photographic essay book entitled Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change, co-published by the California Native Plant Society. Their book celebrates California Native Wildflowers for what they are; works of art! It will encourage love for wild flowers, the diverse living species that have an interconnected relationship with them, and a desire to fight to protect our earth from devastating Climate Change. Rob and Nita are excited to take you behind the scenes on their 27-year journey photographing wildflowers throughout California and the West and the making of Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change. Beauty and the Beast is an educational traveling exhibit and a companion award winning coffee table book. They introduce you to how they use their art and the voices of a diverse group of scientists, environmental leaders, and nature writers to inspire hope and action regarding climate change, land conservation and species extinction.