Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area is a
Wildlife Management Area in
Carroll County, Virginia
Carroll County is a United States county located in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Roughly one fifth of the county lies in the Virginia Piedmont region, while the rest is part of the Appalachian Mountains. The count ...
. It includes forests and open land among rolling hills ranging in elevation from above sea level to . Portions of
Crooked Creek and its east fork are found within the area. The area was once dominated by farmland with open areas formerly used for
pasture
Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...
, and the sites of a number of old houses may still be found across the property. The forests contain mixed
hardwood
Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...
s and
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accep ...
, with ''
Rhododendron
''Rhododendron'' (; from Ancient Greek ''rhódon'' "rose" and ''déndron'' "tree") is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are nati ...
'' thickets along the stream.
Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area is owned and maintained by the
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Virginia that regulates wildlife conservation.
History
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries was created on June 17, 1916, under the ...
, and is open to the public. Hunting and trapping is available, with deer, turkey and small game available. Other permissible activities include trout fishing, hiking, horseback riding, and primitive camping.
[ Access for persons 17 years of age or older requires a valid hunting or fishing permit, or a WMA access permit.]
See also
* List of Virginia Wildlife Management Areas
References
External links
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area
Wildlife management areas of Virginia
Protected areas of Carroll County, Virginia
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