Leaf River Wildlife Management Area
- 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 convert|42000|acre|km2|0|sing=off of pine forest.
Leaf Wilderness
In 1984, convert|994|acre|km2|0|sing=off of the Leaf River Wildlife Management Area 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. [ [http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=314 Leaf Wilderness] - Wilderness.net]
References
ee also
*List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
*Wilderness Act
External links
* [http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/mississippi/desoto/recreation/wilderness/index.shtml De Soto National Forest Wilderness Areas]
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