Climate change wasn't on the public's radar in 1995, when Mary Taylor Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in the Colorado Rockies. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of observations. Her twenty-five year journal, she realized, was a record of climate change, happening not on an Antarctic ice sheet but in their own natural neighborhood and echoed in everyone's backyard.

A guidebook explaining how to look at the amazing array of creatures living in Colorado, including coyotes, elk, mountain lions, eagles, and owls.

If you have been charmed or intrigued by birds, would like to know more about them, but don't consider yourself a "birdwatcher," then this book is for you. Designed for families, tourists, casual nature lovers, and anyone who enjoys birds and wildlife, Watchable Birds of the Rocky Mountains goes beyond identification to reveal the "private lives" of our feathered friends. This guide covers the entire Rocky Mountain range.