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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 ...
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]
The Wichita Forest Reserve was established by the United States General Land Office in Oklahoma on July 4, 1901, with 57,120 acres (231.2 km 2).After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907, as Wichita National Forest.
The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
In 1891 the Forest Reserve Act was passed by Congress, after pressure from John Muir. It facilitated the formation of the National Forest System. [8] After 1900, Gifford Pinchot led a movement of conservation. Pinchot made conservation a popular word in its application to natural resources.
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5]
The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest National Forest in the southern United States. The forest encompasses 1,784,457 acres (7,221 km 2), including most of the scenic Ouachita Mountain Range. Six locations in the forest, comprising 65,000 acres (263 km 2), have been congressionally-designated as wilderness areas.
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