The Field & Trail Guide to the Roosevelt National Forest — subtitled A Guide to Backcountry Travel on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District — is a working reference: a 128-page paperback describing more than 40 trails across the Poudre Canyon, Red Feather Lakes, and Estes Park/Big Thompson Canyon areas of northern Colorado, published by Poudre Wilderness Volunteers. The guide proved its usefulness the way field books do: it went back to press for a second edition.
The work. Co-edited by John Paul Lumpp and Dave Cantrell, the guide brought together trail descriptions from many contributors into a single consistent, usable book — the editorial craft of turning collective knowledge into a publication that hikers could actually carry and trust.
The publisher. Poudre Wilderness Volunteers is the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Forest Service in patrolling and maintaining the trails of the Canyon Lakes Ranger District. The guide served both as a public resource and as a demonstration of what a volunteer organization can publish with professional editorial support.
The details. Paperback, 128 pages, ISBN 978-0-9754039-1-4, published May 2005. The guide is now out of print, but used copies still circulate among booksellers — BookFinder compares whoever has one today.
For a client, this is the Books & Long-Form service applied to an organization: many voices, one coherent book, delivered to press.
