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Hughes River Wildlife Management Area. / 39.14167°N 81.39222°W / 39.14167; -81.39222. Hughes River Wildlife Management Area is located in Wirt County and Ritchie County near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Located on 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) that border both the Little Kanawha River and the Hughes River. The WMA terrain varies from river ...
Dunkard Fork Wildlife Management Area is located on 470 acres (190 ha) in Marshall County near Moundsville, West Virginia. Mixed hardwoods cover most of the former Jacob Crow (1815–1901) (later C.C. Mooney [d. 1970] farm, site, [2] whose major focus is a flood control lake on Dunkard Fork Wheeling Creek .
Tug Fork Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is located about 10 miles northwest of Welch, West Virginia in McDowell County. Tug Fork WMA is located on 2,165 acres (876 ha) of steep terrain along hills above the Tug Fork River. The WMA is heavily forested, primarily with mixed hardwoods and yellow poplar / black cherry forests in the coves. [ 2 ]
Area. 1,425 acres (5.77 km 2) [2] Elevation. 743 ft (226 m) [3] Operator. Wildlife Resources Section, WV Division of Natural Resources. Upper Mud River Wildlife Management Area, is located about 12 miles (19 km) south of Hamlin, West Virginia in Lincoln County, U.S.A. Upper Mud River WMA is located on 1,425 acres (577 ha) of steeply forested ...
Coordinates. 37°57′05″N 80°41′17″W / 37.95139°N 80.68806°W / 37.95139; -80.68806. Area. 2,385 acres (9.65 km 2) [2] Elevation. 2,401 ft (732 m) [3] Operator. Wildlife Resources Section, WV Division of Natural Resources. Meadow River Wildlife Management Area, is located near Rupert, West Virginia in Greenbrier County.
June 23, 1995. Tygart Dam — also known as Tygart River Dam — is a gravity dam built (1934-38) and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Taylor County, West Virginia, United States. [2] The dam regulates the waters of the Tygart Valley River. Its storage reservoir is known as Tygart Lake. Most of the lakeshore is occupied ...
The Williams River is a tributary of the Gauley River, 33 miles (53 km) long, [6] in east-central West Virginia, USA.Via the Gauley, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 132 square miles (342 km 2) in a sparsely populated region of the southern Allegheny Mountains and the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Environment of West Virginia. West Virginia is situated in the Appalachian Mountains, bounded by Allegheny Mountains to the east, Ohio river and its tributary Big Sandy River to the west and southwest and the Cumberland Mountains to the south. The environment of West Virginia encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from plateaus to mountains.