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Steve Stuebner has a hearty appetite for exploring the mountains and rivers of Idaho. His interests include hiking, biking, whitewater boating, canoeing, fishing, camping, skiing, hockey, and most of all, being a Dad.
By day, Steve is a public relations and marketing professional through his business, Steve Stuebner PR & Marketing. Visit Steve’s PR/Marketing page for more information on his professional services.
Steve is Board Chair of the nonprofit Valley County Pathways, a trails advocacy organization based in McCall, and he serves on the board of the Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands.
Steve has written more than 10 books, including Salmon River Country (Caxton Press), Paddling the Payette, Cool North Wind (Caxton Press), and Idaho Microbes, How tiny, single-celled organisms can harm or save our World. He also penned the Boise Trail Guide, 95 Hiking & Running Routes Close to Home, the Owyhee Canyonlands: An Outdoor Adventure Guide, Mountain Biking in McCall, Mountain Biking in Boise, Mountain Biking Idaho, and Discover Idaho’s Centennial Trail.
Idaho Microbes won the Idaho Book of the Year award in 2017 due to its dazzling color photography and graphics accompanying 10 real-world chapters exploring a great diversity of single-celled organisms.
Steve has a journalism and history degree from the University of Montana. He worked for the La Grande Observer in Oregon, the Colorado Springs Sun in Colorado and the Idaho Statesman before setting up his own professional freelance writing business in the early 1990s. For a decade, Steve worked under his own shingle as a professional writer, PR consultant and book publisher. During this time, Steve wrote for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Outside, National Wildlife, The Intelligence Report, Columbia Journalism Review and High Country News.
Steve is the father of two boys, Quinn and Drew. They were raised in Boise and McCall with Steve and his life partner Wendy Wilson, and Wendy’s two children, Tom and Elena.