ROEDERER, Scott (L.)

PERSONAL: Born in CO; married; wife's name Julie. Hobbies and other interests: Birding, fly fishing.

ADDRESSES: Home—Estes Park, CO. Agent—c/o Author's Mail, Johnson Books, 1880 South 57th Ct., Boulder, CO 80301.

CAREER: Author and book editor.

WRITINGS:

The Compleat Angler's Catalog, Johnson Books (Boulder, CO), 1985.

(With Rick Hafele) An Angler's Guide to Aquatic Insects and Their Imitations, illustrated by Richard Bunse, Johnson Books (Boulder, CO), 1987.

Birding Rocky Mountain National Park, illustrated by Scott Rashid, Johnson Books (Boulder, CO), 2002.

Published articles also in fly-fishing magazines.

SIDELIGHTS: Scott Roederer was born and raised in Colorado and has lived in Estes Park, on the boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park, since 1983. He and his wife, Julie, have worked as birding guides for a National Audubon conference and an American Birding Association national conference, and they've also arranged and led birding trips for nationally renowned birders. Roederer commented, during an interview for Front Range Living, "I'm like most birders, I love to look at birds and I wanted to know what their names were. As soon as you do that you're in trouble." Now Roederer has written a field guide that Cyns Nelson, in the Bloomsbury Review, called "meticulous and wholly functional." The guide covers everything that even a novice needs to know to locate, and identify, the multitude of birds that inhabit and visit the park that's famous for it's world-class birding. The handbook, while it contains twelve full-page illustrations, is designed to accompany a field guide with color plates. Focusing on the park's eight best birding areas, with a chapter devoted to each, Roederer provides a species-by-species list, specific locations and seasons for each species, species sighted there in the past, facts, maps, trip planning, hazards (and how to prepare for or avoid them), area accommodations, odometer readings, and other miscellany. As Nelson remarked, "Here is a book that walks and talks you through every pace of the park's birdable terrain with a familiarity that baffles explanation."

A self-confessed fly-fishing buff—he owned and operated a fly-fishing school for ten years—Roederer's The Compleat Angler's Catalog: A Sourcebook for Fly Fishermen is again a deftly detailed handbook for flyfishing enthusiasts. Maggie Johnson commented in American Reference Books Annual that Roederer provides information on "rods, reels, lines, waders, vests, flies, and every other piece of equipment the fly fisherman uses in pursuit of his or her reality." A reviewer for Booklist, meanwhile, called it an "all-inone consumer's guide to the profusion of fly-fishing equipment," written with "unflagging good humor."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Reference Books Annual, 1986, Maggie Johnson, review of The Compleat Angler's Catalog: A Sourcebook for Fly Fishermen, p. 301. Bloomsbury Review, July-August, 2002, Cyns Nelson, review of Birding Rocky Mountain National Park, p. 12.

Booklist, September 1, 1985, review of The Compleat Angler's Catalog, p. 18.

Library Journal, August 1985, David J. Panciera, review of The Compleat Angler's Catalog, p. 112.

online

Front Range Living Web site,http://www.frontrangeliving.com/ (October 22, 2002), interview with Scott Roederer regarding Birding Rocky Mountain National Park.*