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William E Simpson II

California, The Wild, United States
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Covers:  Wildfire ecology, wildlife and forest management, natural resource management, public lands management, wild horses and wild horse management
William is an ethologist living among & studying free-roaming American wild horses in the wilderness: sierranevadaally.org/author/william-e-simpson-ii/
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William E Simpson II’s Biography

Capt. William E. Simpson II: Naturalist - Author, ‘Capt. Bill’ is a retired U.S. Merchant Marine Officer; commercial airplane and helicopter pilot; Master SCUBA Diver; gemologist and university instructor (Univ. of Hawaii - Maui Campus).

Bill spent his formative years on the family working-ranch raising livestock. He also worked in forestry-logging industry in Southern Oregon. After graduating high school, he attended Oregon State University as a pre-med science major, but ultimately earned his degree in Flight Technology.

Bill currently lives at his wilderness ranch among a herd of free-roaming wild horses in the Soda Mountain wilderness area on the Oregon-California border where he studies the behavioral ecology of wild horses on wilderness landscapes and wildfire.

Bill has been a guest on several radio and TV News shows over the past 7-years. Bill is a published author with two books in print and has also authored over 150 articles on subjects related to natural resources management, with a focus on wildfire and wild horses.