The Colorado Trail in Crisis: A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

“Inspirational for anyone interested in climate change and what to do about it.” —Thomas Veblen, University of Colorado Boulder   Open your eyes to the landscape. It will speak its health or sickness to you. See the wildflowers, the living forest, the dead forest, the overly dense forest, the burn scars, the rushing streams, the ebbing streams, the trout rising or not rising, the cerulean bluebird skies or smoke pall in the air; see lynx, moose, elk, or bears if you are lucky. Or not. Or maybe a wolf someday, if you are really lucky. See all of these, and behold Wakan Tanka touched by the hand of man. —from the preface