Bluebird Seasons
Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild

This book takes a personal look at nature and how it's shifting while also shedding some much needed light on climate change and what it looks like in real life and real time. It reminds us all that we can and should find our own stories related to the climate and how important doing so is to our fu......more

Erosion in Long Canyon southwest of Trinidad, Colorado, has exposed a chalky deposit of iridium-rich lithified ash, glassy microtektites, and shattered quartz: the K-Pg (or K-T) Boundary. The inch-thick layer marks the great global extinction caused by the impact of a six-mile-wide asteroid 66 milli......more

For a book about climate change, this book is remarkably uncritical of climate change. The author commits a lot of the classic clichés (to put it lightly) of the early environmentalist movement. Some of the greatest hits include: not-in-my-backyard environmentalism (should’ve guessed this one based......more

This book is a personal account of the effects of climate change on the author's land situated West of Trinidad, Colorado. Although the area is often considered a semi-desert area, it can still get a massive amount of snow so there are four distinct seasons. The author and her husband kept a journal......more

Mary Taylor Young's Bluebird Seasons provides an intimate view of how she has seen and recognized climate change on 37 acres of rural land in southern Colorado that her family owns and has visited for well over two decades. Young kept a nature journal during those years, recording the comings and go......more