Mary Taylor Young

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.

From the sweeping prairies of the eastern plains to the jagged peaks of the Rocxk Mountains, this second edition will lead you to 201 of the state's premier wildlife viewing locations and will better your chances of seeing wildlife once you arrive.

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