Provider: Hughes River Wildlife Management Area (WMA)

Type: Park/Place
Description:
WMA Program enables wildlife biologists to conserve and manage habitat to benefit all wildlife specie. Size: 10,000 acres Terrain: ranges from river bottoms to steep slopes with mature oak-hickory and a patchwork of young pine-hardwood stands created by even-aged timber management.
Location:
This area is located on both sides of state Route 47, 15 miles east of Parkersburg.

Contact: Jeff McCrady

Address:
2311 Ohio Avenue
Parkersburg,WV 26101
Hours:

All areas are open year round.

Costs:

Free

Other Information:

WMA Program enables wildlife biologists to conserve and manage habitat to benefit all wildlife species. www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/D6WMAareas.shtm#70d6

Size: 10,000 acres

Terrain: ranges from river bottoms to steep slopes with mature oak-hickory and a patchwork of young pine-hardwood stands created by even-aged timber management.

Hunting Prospects: deer, grouse rabbit, squirrel, turkey

Class Q hunting area established.

Fishing Opportunities: Little Kanawha River Hughes River

Game Fish: smallmouth bass, channel catfish, muskellunge, panfish

Accommodations and Facilities On the WMA: Camping is not permitted.

Owned by Heartwood Forestland Fund Martin Marietta owns an adjacent 278 acres of the WMA Leased by WVDNR Managed by Wildlife Resources Section

This information has been verified.