Tom Stienstra (born 1954) is an American author, outdoorsman and Outdoors Writer Emeritus for the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. He produces a radio feature for KCBS in San Francisco, and hosted and co-produced a television special for PBS on the Tuolumne River. He has written several guide books for California, the Pacific Northwest and America. He has won several awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
A severe brain injury as a young man shaped his view of the world towards appreciation of the wilderness, and in his older years, he has dealt with brain cancer.
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