Accomplishments

Selected Books Authored and/or Photographed
  • Colorado’s Hidden Valleys (1982)
  • Colorado, Images of the Alpine Landscape (1985)
  • Colorado Lost Places and Forgotten Words (1989)
  • Colorado’s Canyon Country: A Guide to Hiking and Floating BLM Wildlands (1992)
  • Along the Colorado Trail (1992)
  • Colorado, Our Wilderness Future (1992)
  • Colorado, Rivers of the Rockies (1993)
  • The Official Colorado Trail Guide (1993)
  • To Walk in Wilderness: A Colorado Rocky Mountain Journal (1993)
  • The Complete Guide to Colorado’s Wilderness Areas (1994)
  • A Colorado Autumn (1994)
  • Rocky Mountain Park: A 100 Year Perspective (1995)
  • (winner Colorado Book Awards 1995)
  • Explore Colorado (1995)Photographing the Landscape: The Art of Seeing (1996)
  • (Winner Colorado Book Awards 1996)
  • Along Colorado’s Continental Divide Trail (1997)
  • The Official Guide to Colorado’s Continental Divide Trail (1997)
  • A Colorado Winter (1998)
  • Colorado 1870-2000 (1999)
  • Colorado 1870-2000 Revisited (2001)
  • John Fielder’s Best of Colorado (2002)
  • Mountain Ranges of Colorado (2004)
  • Colorado 1870-2000 II (2005)
  • Do You See What I See? (2006)
  • Maria’s Mysterious Mission (2007)
  • Ranches of Colorado (2009)
  • A Colorado Autumn (New edition 2011)
  • Colorado Reflections Littlebook (New Edition 2011)
  • John Fielder’s Great Outdoors Colorado softcover (2012)
  • John Fielder’s Great Outdoors Colorado hardcover (2012)
  • Denver Mountain Parks (2013)
  • Nadia’s Good Deed (2014)
  • Mountain Ranges of Colorado (New Edition 2014)
  • Colorado’s Yampa River (2015)
  • Wildflowers of Colorado (2016)
  • A Colorado Winter (2017)
  • Colorado Black on White (2018)
  • John Fielder in Focus (2019)
  • Colorado’s Highest: The History of Naming the 14,000-Foot Peaks (2020)
  • Weld County: 4,000 Square Miles of Grandeur, Greatness, and Yesterdays (2021)
Selected Awards
  • Daniel L. Ritchie Award for Ethical Behavior and Social Responsibility (University of Denver, 1992)
  • Colorado Conservation Award (Colorado Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, 1992)
  • Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography (Sierra Club, 1993)
  • Rocky Mountain National Park Stewardship Award (Rocky Mountain National Park, 1995)
  • Cranmer Award (Colorado Open Lands, 1997)
  • Humanitarian Award (National Recreation and Parks Association, 1998)
  • Distinguished Service Award (University of Colorado, 2000)
  • Rebel with a Cause (Colorado Environmental Coalition, 2007)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award (Colorado Film Commission, 2007)
  • Aldo Leopold Foundation (first ever Achievement Award to an individual by that organization, 2011)
  • Colorado Mountain College Honorary Degree Sustainability Studies, 2017
  • President’s Award (Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, 2018)