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Havens Wildlife Management Area is a 7,190-acre (29.1 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Roanoke County, Virginia. Located in the Appalachian Highlands and occupying a part of Fort Lewis Mountain, it is steep and generally inaccessible; elevations in the area range from 1,500 to 3,200 feet (460 to 980 m) above sea level. Save for a few ...
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 ).
Ragged Island WMA is managed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The area is open to the public for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking. A boardwalk allows access for viewing the marsh and its wildlife. The WMA may accessed from two parking areas on U.S. Highway 17 just south of the James River Bridge. [2]
Small trees and shrubs then reclaimed the land. Next, smaller portions of the forest were again cut down as fuel for mining industries, and then again abandoned. In 1732, William Byrd described land near an iron mine in what became known as the Wilderness as "exceeding barren, and the growth of trees upon it hardly big enough for coaling". [1]
Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area is a 1,796-acre (7.27 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Carroll County, Virginia. It includes forests and open land among rolling hills ranging in elevation from 2,400 feet (730 m) above sea level to 3,000 feet (910 m). Portions of Crooked Creek and its east fork are found within the area.
James River Wildlife Management Area is a 1,213-acre (4.91 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Nelson County, Virginia, near the town of Wingina. It consists of hilly woodland and relatively level bottomland along slightly more than one mile (1.6 km) of the James River. Elevations at the area range from 350 to 500 feet (110 to 150 m) above ...
Amelia Wildlife Management Area is a 2,217-acre (8.97 km 2) Wildlife Management Area located in Amelia County, Virginia.Primarily upland habitat, it also preserves around 175 acres (0.71 km 2) of bottomland hardwoods and beaver swampland along the Appomattox River.
Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area is a 3,164-acre (12.80 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Prince Edward County, Virginia.With terrain typical of Virginia's south-central Piedmont, it encompasses the 845-acre (3.42 km 2) Briery Creek Lake, a reservoir formed by the damming of Briery Creek and Little Briery Creek.