Leaf River Wildlife Management Area
Leaf River Wildlife Management Area was established in 1940 out of land owned by the U.S. Forest Service. Located within the De Soto National Forest off Mississippi Highway 26 and east of Wiggins, Mississippi, it is composed of approximately Script error: No such module "convert". of pine forest.
Leaf Wilderness
In 1984, Script error: No such module "convert". of the Leaf River Wildlife Management Area in southwestern Greene County Script error: No such module "Coordinates". were designated wilderness. Almost the entire Leaf Wilderness consists of meandering sloughs, oxbow lakes, and spruce-pine forest or oak-gum-cypress river bottom. Loblolly and shortleaf pines are found in abundance, with a dense understory of dogwood, redbud, persimmon, blueberry, honeysuckle, and poison oak. Common wildlife include white-tailed deer and wild turkey.[1]
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- ↑ Leaf Wilderness - Wilderness.net
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