Keen Communications

Keen Communications, LLC., is a book publishing and packaging company created in 2007 through the merger of Menasha Ridge Press in Birmingham, Alabama, and Clerisy Press in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The principal owners are Bob Selinger and Richard Hunt, along with several private investors.

Keen Communications publishes books in the areas of outdoor recreation, travel, sports, health and fitness, nature, and business. The books are how-to and where-to information for participants, retailers, and manufacturers in these areas.

Keen Communications is made up of three book imprints.

Menasha Ridge Press

Menasha Ridge Press—located in Birmingham, Alabama—is a book publisher and packager for the outdoor recreation and travel industries. Founded by Bob Sehlinger in 1982, Menasha Ridge is an independent book publisher covering the outdoors, wilderness sport, wildlife, cooking, history, adventure, dining, and travel worldwide. Artists whose work has been published by Menasha Ridge are Colin Angus, Richard Bangs, Tao Berman, Jon Bowermaster, M. J. Eberhart, Johnny Molloy, William Nealy, Andre Skurka, Buck Tilton, and others.

Menasha Ridge also packages "Unofficial Guides" series for Wiley Publishing.

Clerisy Press

Clerisy Press—located in Cincinnati, Ohio—is a book publisher in the areas of sports, sports medicine, health, fitness, nutrition, business, and travel. It was founded in 2006 by Richard Hunt. Clerisy’s first book published was Crosley, by Rusty McClure, Michael A. Banks, and David Stern.

Other Clerisy Press authors include former Olympic marathoner Julie Isphording and founder of the Eureka! Ranch Doug Hall.

Wilderness Press

Keen Communications acquired Wilderness Press in April 2008. When Tom Winnett published Sierra North in 1967, no other trail guide like it existed for the backcountry: detailed, mile-by-mile descriptions written by authors who walked every mile of trail. Thus heralded the beginning of Wilderness Press, based in Berkeley, CA. Since then, Wilderness Press has expanded its boundaries to cover all of California, Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, New England, Canada, and surprisingly, some of the major US cities.

Today, Wilderness Press continues to publish and distribute some of the highest quality outdoor books and maps in the industry. Besides “where-to” guides for hikers, climbers, paddlers, snowshoers, skiers, and surfers, our “how-to” subjects include kayaking safety, rock climbing, backpacking, outdoor cuisine, navigation with GPS, and getting your kids outside.Throughout the years, Wilderness Press has partnered with a number of non-profit organizations to bring out high-quality guidebooks and maps. Some of these groups include: Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, East Bay Regional Park District, Friends of the Los Angeles River, Grand Canyon Association, Pacific Crest Trail Association, Rail-Trails Conservancy, Save Mount Diablo, Tahoe Rim Trail Association, The Anza-Borrego Foundation & Institute.