Cavalier Wildlife Management Area
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The preserve comprises two separate tracts of land. The Script error: No such module "convert". main tract is located about Script error: No such module "convert". east of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent to the Virginia–North Carolina border; it was once a part of the Great Dismal Swamp but was drained more than 200 years ago. The main tract today is typified by recently logged forestlands planted with young pine.[1] A smaller, Script error: No such module "convert". tract lies about Script error: No such module "convert". north of the main area of land, immediately adjacent to the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.[2]
The area is open to the public for seasonal hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, and primitive camping. Firearms are prohibited in the Dismal Swamp tract, where only bow-hunting is permitted; firearms may be used for hunting within the main tract. Neither area permits horseback riding.[1][2]
Cavalier Wildlife Management Area is owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.[1] Access for persons 17 years of age or older requires a valid hunting or fishing permit, or a WMA access permit.[3]
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External links
- Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Cavalier Wildlife Management Area
- Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Dismal Swamp Tract of Cavalier
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