Bill Bower was born in Shamokin, PA in 1939.  He moved to Harrisburg, PA. in 1952, graduated in 1957 from John Harris High School and married Mary Alice Blessing on 1958.  Bill served in U.S. Navy Seabees from 1958 to 1960, and was stationed at Davisville, RI; Morocco, in North Africa; Camp Lejeune, NC and Puerto Rico.

Bill and Mary Alice had two sons, Mark and Scott, and one daughter, Holly.  Scott was killed in an automobile accident in 1979.          

Bill became Deputy Game Protector in 1966, in Harrisburg, PA, and entered the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation, at Brockway, PA, in 1968, graduating in 1969 as a Wildlife Officer, assigned to Western Bradford County.  Bill and Mary Alice made their home in Troy, PA, and Bill stayed in that district until he retired in 2002 after serving 35 years as a “man in green.”          

In 1983, began a taped weekly nature program (Nature’s Handbook) on the Troy-Canton radio station WHGL which still airs today. After years of writing field notes for the PA Game News, Bill wrote a feature article entitled “Looking Backwards”.  This led to more writing, resulting in the publishing of a book his first book about his experiences as a wildlife officer, called State Officer Any Guns or Game, in 1989.  He published his second book One Man in Green 1991, followed by  Working in God’s Wild Garden in 1992,  and All The Men In Green in 1994.  His fifth book, Every Day Was Game Day, about his experiences dealing with people and enforcing the game laws of the state, was published in 2003.  All books are sold out.          

A weekly newspaper column that he writes, entitled “Reflections in Nature,” appears in several newspapers.  These articles describe what is occurring in nature and the amazing abilities of the plants and animals that we share this planet with.

Bill and Mary Alice attend the Windfall United Methodist Church.