Bill has been working professionally as a fisheries scientist, wildlife ecologist and nature photographer for over 50 years. He taught evening classes for 11 years in the natural sciences at the college level. He has published his work in popular and scientific journals. He writes and publishes articles and images in Nature’s Notebook for magazines by TOTI Media Magazines. One of his photographs is exhibited at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and published in the Zoogoer. His images have also been published in calendars including the Society of Wetland Scientist South Atlantic Chapter. In 1977 he was awarded Water Conservationist of the Year by the Oklahoma and National Wildlife Federations and Phillips Foundation. 

For the past 33 years he has worked in Florida as a professional consulting wildlife ecologist and photographer. He has worked extensively with protected wildlife. This has included conducting baseline studies, determining population estimates, writing and conducting fish and wildlife management plans. Habitat and wildlife management has included prescribed burning and mechanical clearing for uplands and restoring native vegetation and hydroperiods for wetlands. An abbreviated list of protected wildlife species includes the Florida panther, Florida black bear, bald eagle, red-cockaded woodpecker, crested caracara, Florida scrub jay, Florida burrowing owl, American alligator, gopher tortoise, Eastern indigo snake, and listed wading and shore birds. Bill’s extensive education and years of experience in working with fish and wildlife and teaching have contributed significantly to illustrate the natural history of the wildlife subjects photographed.

Bill presently serves as Chairman on the Board of Trustees for the Florida Panther Conservation Bank Endowment Trust for three Florida Panther Banks and in 2008 -2009 as an Honorary Committee Co-Chair on a masters committee at Florida Gulf Coast University in Southwest Florida. Bill’s scientific certifications include Certified Senior Ecologist by the Ecological Society of America; Certified Professional Wetland Scientist by the Society of Wetland Scientists; Certified Fisheries Scientists by the American Fisheries Society and Certified Wetland Delineator by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Bill graduated from the University of Tulsa with a Master of Science in aquatic biology. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from 

Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

Along with nature photography Bill conducts other outdoor photography such as portraits, sporting events, images for web sites, property documentation, etc. Bill also participates in pod casts, conducts workshops on outdoor photography, animal tracking, birding tours and conducting wildlife surveys.