Stahl, G. R.: - G.R. Stahl has been writing about public land issues in the western United States for twenty-five years. His journalism has been recognized with more than fifty state, regional and national awards, and his guidebook to rafting and kayaking in Idaho is the most thorough book on the subject in publication today. A Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Stahl has studied water law, public land law, natural resources law and has a particular interest in the ways people shape and are shaped by the land and water around them. In addition to journalism, Stahl works as a marketing copywriter, policy advocate and sometimes-carpenter and tile setter. In his spare time, he kayaks, skis, mountain bikes, hikes and climbs around the Western U.S. Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is his first novel