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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.
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.
Spring Hollow Reservoir is a 158-acre (0.64 km 2), 3.3-billion-US-gallon (12,000,000 m 3) side-stream reservoir in Roanoke County, Virginia with the largest roller-compacted concrete dam east of the Mississippi [1] Having commenced operation in 1996, it is now the main source of water for residents of Roanoke County.
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]
Claytor Lake in Pulaski County, Virginia, is a 4,472-acre (1,810 ha), 21-mile-long (34 km) reservoir on the New River, created for an Appalachian Power Company hydroelectric project.
Map of Loudoun County in Virginia According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Loudoun County has a total area of 521 square miles (1,350 km 2 ), of which 516 square miles (1,340 km 2 ) is land and 6 square miles (16 km 2 ) (1.1%) is water. [ 27 ]
Located across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County, Stafford County is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2006, and again in 2009, Stafford was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 11th highest-income county in the United States. According to a Census ...
Smith Creek has been the beneficiary of a large-scale stream restoration project to revitalize the stream to a point where the native trout species can again thrive. Prior to the Civil War, trout up to 5 and 6 pounds were common in the stream, but as forested land was converted to pasture land for livestock the stream became unsuitable for fish.