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Spotlight on Game
Commission Lands
Lands owned and managed by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries will be in the spotlight along with other public lands in Virginia during Wildlife Week, March 19-25. This year's theme, 'Your Public Lands,” was chosen to acquaint the public with recrea Tional and commercial uses being permitted on their public owned lands and to stimulate interest in how these lands can be more fully utilized to meet the increasing demands of the future.
The Game Commission currently owns over 136,000 acres of land, most of which is managed for public hunting. Three of these tracts are managed primarily as waterfowl refuges, and refuge areas are included within some of the other public hunting areas. All species of resident and migratory game found in Vir ginia may be bagged on one or another of these areas scattered from the Eastern Shore to the Southwestern mountains.
In addition to hunting lands, I the Commission has construct ed 16 public fishing lakes total ing 1,456 acres to provide angling opportunity in areas with little acreage of impounded water. Two more such lakes are currently under construction. A total of 70 public boat landings have been or are being constructed on Virginia’s major waterways. The Commission has long maintained a policy of using hunters’ and fishermen’s money only for the development of facilities that these groups would use. These developments include primitive camp grounds, drinking water supplies, crude restroom faci lities and access roads and trails. The Commission has cooperated with other Govern ment agencies desiring to de velop facilities for different recreational uses, provided these uses are compatible with
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