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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 Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Hog Island Wildlife Management Area is a 3,908-acre (15.82 km 2 ) Wildlife Management Area along the lower James River in Virginia . The peninsular tip was named "Hog Island" in 1608 by Jamestown settlers who released three hogs in the area, who became feral and multiplied.
The Board holds meetings every year to consider amendments to the Virginia Administrative Code. In even-numbered years, fish and aquatic regulations are reviewed. In odd numbered years, game and terrestrial nongame wildlife regulations are reviewed. Procedures for emergency situations had not yet been developed, as of 2004.
Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area is a 6,400-acre (26 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Washington County, Virginia, along its border with Russell County. The area is typified by mountainous mature hardwood forests that have regenerated on land logged in the early twentieth century; a number of small openings which are also maintained as ...
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area (also known as the C.F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area) is a 4,539-acre (18.37 km 2) Wildlife Management Area located in Fauquier and Culpeper counties, Virginia. It contains over 1,000 acres (4 km 2) of open land previously used for agriculture ...
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. 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.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. 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. [2]
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. 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. [2]