William H. Funk

Biography

I hold both a Juris Doctor and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Policy from Vermont Law School, the country’s top environmental law facility, and have developed a reputation for explicating complex legal, policy and scientific matters in illuminating and compelling prose. My areas of journalistic expertise include endangered species and habitat preservation, wildlife crime, marine issues, history, public lands management, climate change, animal cruelty issues, wetlands mitigation, land use, environmental law, sustainability, wilderness subjects, traditional cultures, rural living and Appalachian culture. I’m particularly interested in journalistic projects that involve some of the weightiest topics of our time: rewilding, the African poaching crisis, the Anthropocene and the Sixth Extinction. I’ve worked with numerous environmental NGOs and both federal and state environmental agencies, and am a skilled and eager naturalist.