David J. Strohmaier is a public comment analyst with the U.S. Forest Service. He has worked fifteen seasons as a wildland firefighter with the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. He is published in Wildfire Magazine, Ecological Restoration, and Camas: People and issues of the North Rockies. Strohmaier holds graduate degrees in philosophy of religion from Yale University and in environmental studies from the University of Montana. He writes from his home in Missoula, Montana.
"Firefighters can hardly avoid philosophical moments, but here is a philosopher of fire par excellence, a quite penetrating and literary stream of consciousness in ongoing analysis and encounter. Strohmaier discovers fire to be an entry point into understanding who we are, what sort of world we live in, and how we come to know what is inherently valuable about each. 'Fire promotes life as it destroys it, becomes a perennial sacrament of life persisting in the midst of its perpetual perishing. This is provocative reading for all who wonder about the wonders of fire." - Holmes Rolston III, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University
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