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Hopkins' bioclimatic law states that in North America east of the Rockies, a 130-m (400-foot) increase in elevation, a 4° change in latitude North (444.48 km), or a 10° change in longitude East (two-thirds of a time zone) will cause a biological event to occur four days later in the spring or four days earlier in the fall. [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.
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 ).
They are managed by the Virginia Department of Forestry. [1] The system was created to manage and maintain forests for wildlife, timber production, recreation, water quality, and aesthetics. The system receives no taxpayer funds, and is self-supported by the sale of forest products. [2] Most Virginia state forests are accessible to the public.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area is a 25,477-acre (103.10 km 2 ) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Virginia . It is the second-largest WMA in the Commonwealth, covering portions of Smyth , Washington , Russell , and Tazewell counties.
Conway Robinson State Forest is a state forest in Prince William County, Virginia, near Manassas National Battlefield Park. It serves as a wildflower and wildlife sanctuary . The forest covers 444 acres (180 ha) of pine plantation, mixed pine, and old-growth hardwoods and is one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land owned by the ...
Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.67 km 2), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km 2) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area. [1] Forests cover 65% of the state, wetlands and water cover 6% of the land in the state, while 5% of the state is a mixture of commercial, residential, and transitional. [2]
This is based on a 12 to 14 cm (5" to 6") stem height as an acceptable healthy height. [39] In practice, deer densities as high as 30 deer per square kilometers (80 per sq. mi.) are known to occur in restricted or fractured habitat where natural control mechanisms (that is, predators like wolves) are lacking. Such densities, if maintained over ...