Notes on Contributors

Lisa Bates is a graduate student at CUNY Graduate School and University Center working on a dissertation on integrity and objectivity. She also teaches at the University of Colorado, where she teaches mostly political philosophy, philosophy of law, as well as courses on globalization, feminism, and race. Email: Lisa.Bates@Colorado.Edu

Scott Friskics works as a teacher and grant-writer at Fort Belknap College, a tribally controlled community college located on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (P.O. Box 159; Harlem, Montana, 59526), and serves on the board of directors of the Island Range Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association. The author wrote the original draft of this essay during a sabbatical year spent living at his cabin on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. He wishes to thank numerous teachers, family members, friends and colleagues who provided valuable comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Special thanks go to Carole Falcon-Chandler, President of Fort Belknap College, for providing the time and support needed for the author to shape this essay into its current form. Email: friskics@hotmail.com

Greta Gaard's books include Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998), Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (1998), and Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. The essay, "Explosion," is taken from her work-in-progress, a volume of ecofeminist creative nonfiction titled Home is Where You Are: Essays on Place, Identity, Community. Email:

gaar0001@umn.edu

Shagbark Hickory is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, where he will continue to team-teach American Indian Philosophy and Literature in the Spring. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Humanities Fellow with the Native Philosophy Project at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario (1996-97) and inaugural Visiting Scholar of Ecophilosophy and Earth Education at Murdoch University in Western Australia (2000). He now enjoys a permanent position in Wilderness University where he is currently Visiting Flora with ZenLite.

James Jakób Liszka is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of Moral Competence, The Semiotic of Myth, and A General Introduction of the Semeiotic of Charles S. Peirce. He has also written a number of articles on ethics, narrative theory, and the theory of signs and symbols. He is co-founder of the Alaska Quarterly Review, and past editor of The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. Email:

JamesLiszka@uaa.alaska.edu

James W. Sheppard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he teaches environmental ethics and policy, ethics, philosophy of religion, urban theory and policy, and pragmatism. His research centers on the project of developing an environmental ethic that is applicable to/for/in urban regions. He serves as a member and/or reviewer for various philosophical and environmental organizations. He also is a member of UMKC's Center for the City Urban Taskforce. Email:

sheppardj@umks.edu

Deborah Slicer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana. Email:

ds7p@selway.umt.edu

David Strohmaier is a historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc., in Missoula, Montana. Over the past 18 years he has worked in fire and land management policy with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service. He holds graduate degrees in philosophy of religion from Yale University and in environmental studies from the University of Montana. His research interests include environmental ethics and philosophy, ecological restoration, religious views of nature, and fire. His most recently published work is a book titled The Seasonsof Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West (University of Nevada Press, 2001). Strohmaier's articles and essays have been published in Wildfire Magazine, EcologicalRestoration, and Camas: People and Issues of the Northern Rockies. He writes from his home in Missoula, Montana. Email:

dstrohmaier@msn.com

Peter S. Wenz is Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and is one of those aging leftist, feminist, environmentalist vegetarians one sees jogging near...