San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History, by David D. Schmidt, Backcountry Press: Kneeland, California.  2025 Long-time environmental historian David D. Schmidt spent the past three decades crafting his personal opus—a 630-page encyclopedic account of the San Francisco Bay Area’s history. Today it was announced that his publisher, Backcountry Press of Kneeland California, won the 2026 California Book Award Gold Medal for Contributions to Publishing […]