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Big Cottonwood Wildlife Management Area

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Area
  
3.294 kmĀ²

Established
  
1993

Nearest city
  
Oakley

Big Cottonwood Wildlife Management Area

Location
  
Cassia County, Idaho, United States

Governing body
  
Idaho Department of Fish and Game

Big Cottonwood Wildlife Management Area at 814 acres (3.29 km2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Cassia County northwest of the town of Oakley. The land for the WMA was purchased in 1993 by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and had previously been a cattle ranch and farm for nearly 100 years.

The WMA is at the foothills of the South Hills in Sawtooth National Forest. Wildlife found in the WMA include mule deer, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, and reintroduced California bighorn sheep.

References

Big Cottonwood Wildlife Management Area Wikipedia