Suspension of the Rules

by Don Stuart

Overview

A dairy farmer drowns in his own livestock waste lagoon. This suspicious death draws lobbyist Sandy Dalton into investigating the ultimately dangerous world of farmers, environmentalists, and their complex legislative politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603812740
Publisher:	Northwest Corner Books
Publication date:	07/14/2021
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Don Stuart lobbied the Washington State Legislature for over 20 years while employed by the commercial fishing industry, conservation districts, and later American Farmland Trust, a national nonprofit working to protect agricultural land and improve its environmental performance. Don's legislative work helped create the Washington State Conservation Commission's Office of Farmland Preservation (https://scc.wa.gov/office-of-farmland-preservation) and the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program's Farmland Preservation Grants Program, (https://www.rco.wa.gov/grants/farmland.shtml). Don has also been a U.S. Navy JAGC officer, a practicing trial attorney, a candidate for U.S. Congress, spokesman and campaign manager in defending against a statewide ballot initiative, an Alaska commercial salmon fisherman, and he personally built and then skippered the 47' commercial salmon troller, F/V Nightwings.