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Havens Wildlife Management Area

Trail, Salem, VA 24153, USA
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Jim Garlits (04/19/2020)
This area has recovered slowly since timber production decimated it during westward expansion. Only the hardiest of outdoorsmen tackle it, making its name appropriate. It is a haven, not so much for humans, but for the fragile web of wildlife and plant life struggling to thrive there. It needs to be preserved, not because it isn't good for anything else, but because it is good, period. It is a wild place, and the wild things living there deserve the protection it affords them.
Robert C (01/25/2020)
As mentioned by another review, this 'wildlife management area' is nearly devoid of all wildlife. The terrain is horrid, the area has very little water outside of the wet season. The forests are VERY thick, in some places you literally cannot see more than a few feet in front of you. The area has nearly no sustainable food sources for deer. The few deer I've seen in the area have all been very small and malnourished. Sadly this WMA is probably better suited to being parceled up and sold to the public to allow private owners to manage the land. It is currently functionally useless to hunters and other sportsmen.
David R Smith (11/15/2019)
This state hunting area gets only 1 star for several reasons 1 it has extremely limited hunter access. For example, the roads along the top of Fort Lewis Mountain are all barricaded No Trespassing private roads. Hunters must park either on Bradshaw Rd and walk 0.5 to 2.0 miles up a steep mountain, or park off off Wildwood Road on a foothill of Ft. Lewis and again walk 0.5 to 2.0 miles up the rugged mountain. 2 In the fall, there is very little greenery on this mountain, so deer and bear have little or no food. Also, there are almost no field plots for browse for the deer and most of the forest is old growth or wildfire areas having extremely thick shrubs where your view is limited to a few feet! 3 being on a mountain, there is precious little water for game, the small creeks run straight downhill and dry up within a few hours of a rain storm. Ironically, hunters coming to the Havens area often spot deer near the two aforementioned paved roads as they congregate around the homes and yards alongside those roads and lowland wet creeks where there is a lot of greenery to eat while Havens itself is dry and brown and almost lifeless.
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