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In this A Sand County Almanac for the twentyfirst century nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pinecovered foothills of southern Colorado

Climate change wasnt yet on the public radar when Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in 1995 They built a cabin and set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes and Mary began a nature journal of her observations delighting in the ceaseless dramas joys and tragedies that are the fabric of life in the wild

But changes greater 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 and thinner the decline of some familiar birds and the appearance of new species

Using the journal as a chronicle of change Young tells a story echoed in everyones lives and backyards But its not time to despair she writes Its time to act

Young sees hope in the human ability to overcome great obstacles in the energy and determination of young people and in natures resilience which the bluebirds show season after season