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Arcadia Conservation Education Area (CEA) [6] [7] Oklahoma: East of I-35, north of I-44 and on the east side of Lake Arcadia in Edmond: Managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for public and school education. [8] Closed to All Hunting, with limited exceptions. [9] Coordinates 35.623931, -97.389394 Atoka WMA [10] Atoka: 6,440 ...
Located in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle, the 4,333-acre (17.54 km 2) Optima National Wildlife Refuge is made up of grasslands and wooded bottomland on the Coldwater Creek arm of the Optima Lake project.
An area of 2,590-acre (10.5 km 2), abutting the park on the west, comprises the Tenkiller Wildlife Management Area, and is licensed to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for a state game management and hunting area. Hunters in this area will find abundant deer, quail, dove, duck, geese, rabbit and squirrel. [4]
The McCurtain County Wilderness Area is a 14,087 acres (5,701 ha) wilderness nature preserve 25 miles (40 km) north of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. It has been owned by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. [1] It was designated a National Natural Landmark in December 1974 for its excellent example of a xeric upland oak-pine forest. [2]
Public use areas on the refuge total 22,400 acres (9,100 ha). The remaining 37,000-acre wildlife area (15,000 ha) is protected wildlife habitat only. [ 28 ] A visitor center and bookstore displays art and has exhibits illustrating the four major habitats found on the refuge: Rocklands, Aquatic, Mixed-Grass Prairie, and Cross Timbers .
Platt National Park was abolished by Congress and made part of the much larger Chickasaw National Recreation Area (CNRA) in 1976, which included Lake of the Arbuckles. [12] In 1983, the city of Sulphur traded the 67-acre Veterans Lake (27 ha) to the recreation area in exchange for a strip of land above the State Highway Seven bridge. [3]
There are three developed recreation areas in Oklahoma and one in Texas. Dead Warrior Lake (formerly Dead Indian Lake) is 80 acres (32 ha) in size and is 11 miles (18 km) north of Cheyenne. Spring Creek Lake is 14 miles (23 km) north of Cheyenne and is 50 acres (20 ha) in size. Sixty-acre (24 ha) Skipout Lake is 10 miles (16 km) west of ...
The trail goes through wooded and open areas, beneath towering cottonwood trees, past marshes and ponds, and to a shore and waterfowl watching area on Sand Creek Bay. [15] Selenite crystals: A designated area of the 11,000 acres (45 km 2) of salt flats at the refuge has gypsum concentrations high enough to grow selenite, a crystalline form of ...