A passion for birds and nature

Lowell Young keeps his tripod extended for quick use while birding in Wawona Meadow in Yosemite National Park. Because he is colorblind and with limited hearing, Lowell adapts by finding ways to quickly identify birds when they fly by.

Here's another story that just went online that Carmen and I worked on together for Audubon Magazine. It's about a Fresnan named Lowell Young whose passion for birding and nature helped spearhead an effort to create the proposed Range of Light National Monument. Read Carmen's great story.

Lowell Young searches for birds in Yosemite National Park’s Wawona Meadow, part of the Lowell Young Southern Sierra Nevada Important Bird Area.

Lowell Young uses his binoculars to look among dead trees in a portion of Sierra National Forest that burned in the 2017 Railroad Fire.

Lowell Young holds a bird field guide that was handed to him by a random stranger when he was a younger man. It led him to his birding passion.

Lowell Young and his wife, Sue, share a moment together while birding in Yosemite National Park’s Wawona Meadow.

Avid birder Lowell Young shows off his “Easily Distracted by Birds” T-shirt while birding around Wawona Meadow within Yosemite National Park.

Willow Creek flows westward through granite rock toward Bass Lake in Sierra National Forest. It’s within the Lowell Young Southern Sierra Nevada Important Bird Area, and part of the proposed Range of Light National Monument.

Lowell Young smiles while watching the water flow down Willow Creek in Sierra National Forest.