Paid for by Dave Strohmaier for City Council,
Deborah Richie Oberbillig, Treasurer,
503 Liden, Missoula, MT 59802

 

Education

 

• Master’s degree in Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
• Master’s degree in Religion, Yale Divinity School
• Bachelor’s degree in Religion-Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University

 

Experience

 

• Missoula City Council, 2005 – Present
  • Chair, Public Safety and Health Committee
• President, Historic Eastside Neighborhood Association
• Historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc.
• Nature writer: Author of The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West and (University of Nevada Press, 2001), Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire (forthcoming, University of Nevada Press, fall 2005).
• Active member of Holy Spirit Episcopal Parish
• Served on the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau
• Former wildland firefighter with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service
• Former public comment analyst, U.S. Forest Service
• Former volunteer fireman and emergency medical technician