Francis Moul

Francis Moul "is a fifth generation Nebraskan, born in York to parents who grew up in Fairmont. He lived in Wilber and grew up in Syracuse and Grand Island, then moved to Vermillion, SD for the last two years of high school where he stayed on for two degrees at the University of South Dakota—BA in Journalism and MA in political science. Moul worked as a reporter at the Sioux City Journal and an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register before teaching for three years at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE. In 1971 Moul founded a printing/ publishing firm in Syracuse which he owned for 17 years. Moul was also a founding Director, President, and volunteer Executive Director of the Nebraska Wildlife Federation, and held numerous local, regional, and statewide offices in politics, economic development, and environmental groups. In 1998 he earned a Ph.D. in environmental history from the University of Nebraska and in 2006 published his first book, on the National Grasslands, through the University of Nebraska Press. He is currently an independent researcher, author, and environmental historian."


 * Advisory Board, Grassland Foundation