Kim Steinhardt & Gary Griggs 
The Edge 
The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populated, urbanized, and industrialized — but also home to wilderness with complex, fragile ecosystems — the coast is the place where humanity and nature coexist in a precarious balance that is never perfectly stable.