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Virginia Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state-managed protected areas that exist primarily for the benefit of wildlife. Within the Commonwealth of Virginia , 46 tracts of land have been protected as WMAs, covering a total of over 216,000 acres (338 sq mi; 870 km 2 ).
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries was created on June 17, 1916, under the Commission of Fisheries with M.D. "Mac" Hart appointed as Secretary of the Department. A Virginia hunting license was established as one of the primary sources of funding as the agency is fully self-sufficient and receiving no financial support from the ...
Virginia hunting adventure: Slaybaugh family. On November 11, four Slaybaughs, Dave, his sons David Jr. and Parker as well as his brother Brad, spread out across Sussex and Surry.
Ragged Island Wildlife Management Area, also known as Ragged Island Wildlife Refuge, is a 1,537-acre (6.22 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Within a few miles of one of Virginia's busiest and most populated regions is the Ragged Island Wildlife Management Area, a largely unspoiled area of marshland and ...
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries states that it holds all three tracts open to the public for hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, and boating from sunrise to sunset seven days per week. However, access to the Hog Island tract requires transit through lands of Dominion Energy, which operates the Surry Nuclear Power Plant ...
A Virginia man has died after a bear in a tree shot by one of his hunting partners fell on him, ... Lester C. Harvey, 58, of Phenix, Virginia has died while hunting. Lester Harvey/Facebook.
G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area, one of the richest botanical areas of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a 4,000-acre (16 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) located primarily in Fauquier County, Virginia, with small encroachments into both Warren and Clarke Counties.
Cavalier Wildlife Management Area is a 4,550-acre (18.4 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Chesapeake, Virginia.It preserves habitat for a number of species, including black bear, canebrake rattlesnakes, white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkeys, and many varieties of songbirds.