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In 1982, Virginia Game Wardens were given full law enforcement authority. In 1987, the commission's name returns to become the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. On July 1, 2020, the Department's name was changed to Department of Wildlife Resources. [2] [3]
According to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, in 2023, 42% of crashes involving deer happened throughout October and November. Of the 7,335 crashes reported to police, 690 of them ...
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.
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 and maintained by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. [1]
The incident occurred Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources said in a statement. Lester C. Harvey, 58, of Phenix ...
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources confirmed to USA TODAY that a treed bear fell and struck the hunter about 9:50 a.m. on Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County.
Virginia has 77 species of native land mammals (including extirpated species), and the coast is visited by nearly 30 marine mammal species. 11 species or subspecies of native Virginian mammals are listed as endangered or threatened by the state Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR).
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources Chickahominy Wildlife Management Area is a 5,217-acre (21.11 km 2 ) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Charles City County, Virginia . It is the only WMA located in the coastal plain of tidewater Virginia consisting primarily of forested uplands with a lesser amount of wetland habitat.