California Wildfire Map for Book

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Graphic Design Brief
Graphic map outline of California, with pins placed at a few dozen locations. I am a photographer writing a book about wildfires I've photographed. These pins will represent the fires I've covered. I've attached a rough mockup.
Final graphic will probably be printed in grayscale, but if you decide to use color, warmer tones are best. Below is the Google Maps doc I have for logging fire locations, and a *very* bad mockup of a graphic direction...
See this link for the updated map and for reference: https://www.terraflamma.org/map
Should be a vertical image with a fairly standard 2:3 aspect ratio which will fit on a standard hardcover book page. This should also allow the California state outline to fit.
You may use the "Into the Inferno Heat Map, 2012-2020" if you'd like.
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In Book for Reader, Possible online Use as well.
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Requirements
Must have
- Map of California with pins or another object that shows most of the fires that I've pinned on Google Maps. Location does not have to be exact, but should be fairly accurate.
Nice to have
- Clean design that shows most of the pins. Geographically accurate.
Some topographical relief features showing California's mountains would be cool. Even if it's just the Sierra Nevadas and SoCal mountains.