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Welcome Guest! We have created a small member benefit tour for you! You can view this below the main menu to your left. After the tour please read our website policy. We look forward to welcoming you as a member.

As a note to our members, readers, and visitors, who are looking for this issue of the online magazine, we have some news to report.

We will not be publishing this issue of the online magazine on August 1st due to immediate plans to overhaul the Water and Woods domain. In short it makes very little sense to spend several hours posting articles that will be taken down in the very near future and republished into the new format.

If you're interested in what the rebuild of this site will entail we encourage you to continue reading for further details.



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A bear entered a tent and bit a camper in the Gallatin National Forest early Thursday, leading the U.S. Forest Service to evacuate and close two campgrounds.

Forest officials say the bear entered a tent at the Soda Butte campground, near Cooke City, at about 3 a.m. and bit a camper on his hand and arms.

The camper was asleep when the bear entered, forest spokeswoman Marna Daley said.

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A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula granted a preliminary injunction late Friday restoring the protections for the wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Molloy will eventually decide whether the injunction should be permanent.

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In late May 2008, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Fisheries staff responded to a report by a local fisherman of an invasive species in Catlin Creek near Ridgebury Lake in the Town of Waywayanda, Orange County. Subsequently, DEC conducted an investigation and verified the presence of the Northern Snakehead, a species native to Asia.

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Hoping to reduce the number of collisions between cars and deer, Essex County NJ is installing a roadside alarm system in South Mountain Reservation.

The system is activated by cars' headlights and emits a sound similar to a car alarm. The sound, which is supposed to mimic an animal in distress, does not hurt the deer's ears but instead makes them frightened so they leave the area.

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The June issue of Water and Woods Online Magazine has just been published.

You can access this issue through the numerous links found in the menus to the left and the right as well as access your favorite authors directly by clicking their links to the right of this announcement.

We appreciate your interest and contributions.

As regular visitors have noticed we have been offline for the past several days. This was due to a structure fire where our servers are housed. No data was lost but the time involved in repairing electrical connections and re-routing servers played the major role regarding this time where our site was not available. The same instance was said to effect nearly one million different websites on 9,000 servers which were also housed in the same unit.

This downtime also means that we have missed our June 1 deadline for the publishing of Water and Woods Online Magazine. Because of the time involved in the actual publish portion of the magazine we plan to wait an additional 24 hours before adding this new material. Although no further problems have been projected we will allot this additional timeframe to be sure all glitches have been worked out in the server system.

We apologize for the delay but this was simply beyond our control.

A total “harvest quota” of 25 trophy-game gray wolves, in a hunting season suggested to open Oct. 1 this year in northwest Wyoming, is a new element in this year’s Wyoming Game and Fish (G&F) annual release of proposed hunting season changes.

“The structure of the season will be an Area Harvest Quota Limitation, in which the season for each wolf hunt area will close when the harvest quota for that area has been reached,” said G&F spokesman Eric Keszler. “The proposal will establish wolf seasons and harvest quotas in four hunt areas in the Trophy Game Area of northwest Wyoming.”

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The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited dramatic declines in sea ice over the last three decades and projections of continued losses. These declines, he told a news conference, mean the polar bear is a species likely to be in danger of extinction in the near future.

Kempthorne also said, though, that it would be "inappropriate" to use the protection of the bear to reduce greenhouse gases, or to broadly address climate change.

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Sharpshooters have finished for now trying to dramatically thin the deer herd in part of northwestern Minnesota plagued by bovine tuberculosis.

Shooting from the ground and a helicopter, federal and private sharpshooters killed 962 deer -- more than had been estimated to inhabit the 164-square-mile core area in January. The sharpshooting began in February and ended Friday.

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