Bluebird Seasons
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-64160-813-8 (ISBN)
Climate change wasn’t yet on the public radar when Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in 1995. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of their observations, delighting in the ceaseless dramas, joys, and tragedies that are the fabric of life in the wild.
But greater changes than the seasonal cycles of nature became evident over time: increasing drought, trees killed by plagues of beetles, wildfires, catastrophic weather, bears entering hibernation later, the decline of some familiar birds, and the appearance of new species.
Their journal of sightings over twenty-five bluebird seasons, she realized, was a record of climate change happening not in an Indonesian rainforest or Antarctic ice sheet, but in their piece of the wild. Using the journal as a chronicle of change, Young tells a story echoed in the lives and backyards of everyone. But it’s not time to despair, she writes, it's time to act.
Young sees hope in the human ability to overcome great obstacles, in the energy and determination of young people, and in nature’s resilience, which the bluebirds show season after season.
Award-winning writer, naturalist and zoologist Mary Taylor Young has been writing about the landscape and heritage of Colorado and the American West for more than thirty-five years. Her twenty-two books include Land of Grass and Sky: A Naturalist's Prairie Journeyand Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years. She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Authors League, was inducted into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame in 2019, and was the 2018 Frank Waters Award honoree for exemplary literary achievement.
Foreword
Preface: Call Me by My Name
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bluebirds in the Meadow
2. Nest Boxes
3. Pinkies
4. The Summer of the Bear
5. An Autumn for Elk
6. Feather Chase
7. Summer’s Hummers
8. The Sustainer of Life
9. Cavity Nesters
10. Potsherds and PiÑon Nuts
11. Wildfire!
12. In a Fossil Fuel Field
13. Snowbound
14. A Mouse in the House
15. Mark of an Ancient Cataclysm
16. Bluebird Lessons
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Chicago |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 385 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64160-813-7 / 1641608137 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64160-813-8 / 9781641608138 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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