Don StuartDon Stuart is an attorney and a former commercial fisherman who, in 1990, became Executive Director and a lobbyist for the Washington commercial salmon fishing industry. In 1995 he served as Campaign Manager in the successful defense against a Washinton statewide anti-commercial fishing ballot initiative (I-640). In 1996, he ran for the U.S. Congress in Washington's First Congressional District. In 1997 he became Executive Director for the Washington Association of Conservation Districts and in 2000 became Northwest Regional Director for the American Farmland Trust. In that role, he fought to protect agricultural land from development and to assure its responsible environmental management. Don's website - www.donstuart.net, includes links to an extensive collection of research on agriculture and environmental issues including numerous non-fiction papers authored by Don on issues related to his fiction and nonfiction writing. Read More Read Less