Travel Author Tom Stienstra

Tom Stienstra

Tom Stienstra: America's top outdoors writer award winner for 2006
Newspaper -- San Francisco Chronicle:
--First winner of the new National Backcountry Sportsman of the Year, newspaper division. "A boy, his dog and the wilderness"

--First Place, Best Big Game Hunting story in America. "Hog Wild, Kauai tradition"

--Second place, Best Shooting Sports story in America. "Home On the Range"

TV -- CBS/CBCW-San Francisco, KMAX/KOVR-Sacramento:
--First place, best outdoor recreational travel TV show in America. "Land of Volcanoes"

--First place, best outdoors TV show in California. "From Surfing to Sea Otters"

--Second place, Best natural history segment in America. "Sea Otters by Kayak"

--Third place, Best boating/paddlesports segment in America. "Flood Stage Fervor -- Rafting the Upper Sac"

Radio -- KCBS-74-San Francisco
--First winner of the National Backcountry Sportsman of the Year, radio division. "Wilderness Magic"

--First place, best outdoor radio feature in California. "The Old Green Canoe."

--First place for best boating/paddle-sports segment in America. "The Old Green Canoe."

--First place, for best segment on Value of Wilderness. "No Such Thing As A Wrong Turn"

--Second place, for best segment, Value of Wilderness. "Wilderness Magic"

There were 1,700 entries in this year's contests from the nation's 2,000 outdoors writers who are members of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and the Outdoors Writers Association of California.