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Conservation Police patch. The law enforcement officers of the department have the title conservation police officer. [4] Conservation police officers enforce Virginia laws relating to hunting, fishing, and boating; conduct patrols in cars, aircraft, all-terrain vehicles, and boats, and on foot; and investigate tips from the public.
State (Virginia DWR) State (NatureServe) Eastern slender glass lizard: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus: Anguidae: Apparently secure (S4) Eastern glass lizard: Ophisaurus ventralis: Anguidae: State threatened Critically imperiled (S1) Eastern fence lizard: Sceloporus undulatus: Phrynosomatidae: Secure (S5) Northern coal skink: Plestiodon ...
G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area is owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.The area is open to the public for hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, boating, and primitive camping. [2]
Virginia Wildlife Management Area boundary sign. WMAs in Virginia differ from other state-managed protected areas in that they are solely intended to preserve and improve wildlife habitat, with a particular focus on game animals, and to provide public space for hunting and fishing activities.
Sensitive joint-vetch (Aeschynomene virginica); Shale barren rock-cress (Arabis serotina); Virginia round-leaf birch (Betula uber); Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)
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.
The Virginia State Commission of Conservation and Development was created in 1926 under Governor Harry F. Byrd to consolidate and coordinate several conservation agencies: the Water Power and Development Commission, the State Geological Commission, the State Geological Survey, Office of the State Geologist, Office of the State Forester, and the Division of Parks.
Lake Chesdin Reservoir was created in 1968 by construction of the George F. Brasfield Dam on the Appomattox River. [2] Lake Chesdin was built to supply water to Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield counties, along with the cities of Colonial Heights and Petersburg. [3]