Book club meets Wednesday, October 8 at 3:00 p.m.
BCAS Book Club Selections for 2025
The Black Canyon Audubon Book Club will begin meeting on the second Wednesday of each month at 3:00 p.m. Meetings will be virtual (usually in the fall and winter) or in-person in Montrose (usually in Spring and Summer). Contact Bruce Ackerman for more details. Please check back with this website, as times, locations and book choices may change to accommodate the participants. Please join us, even if you haven’t read the book yet! Let Bruce know if you would like to be on the separate email list specifically for the Book Club.
October 8. Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild by Mary Taylor Young (2023). The Colorado author has monitored bluebird nest boxes for 28 years around her cabin in the hills above Pueblo, CO, as well as watching everything else about nature. In that amount of time, she began to see changes caused by climate change on her property. Susan knows the author, who has written many books about the wildlife of Colorado.
November 12. Alfie & Me by Carl Safina (2023). Alfie is an orphaned screech owl rescued, raised and released during the covid pandemic by Safina and his wife. Along the way, the author takes a deep dive into humanity's relationship with the natural world from antiquity to today. Safina is a prominent ecologist and oceanographer; his writing is described as "lyrical non-fiction."
December 10. The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness by Kenn Kaufman (2024). Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating “blend of history, science, art, biography, and memoir” that is “a bird lovers’ delight.” Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science.