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          • Conversion of Rip Raps Island
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        • The 2nd Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas
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          • Virginia Freshwater Mussel Restoration Strategy: Upper Tennessee River Basin
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        • Appalachian Cottontail (Sylvilagus obscurus)
        • Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
        • Marsh Rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris)
      • Reptiles
        • Overview of the Commercial Harvest of Snapping Turtles in Virginia
        • Snakes
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            • Canebrake Rattlesnake Conservation Plan
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          • Carcass Transport
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          • CWD Surveillance and Management in Virginia
          • CWD Testing for Deer Harvested Outside a Disease Management Area
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          • How to Report a Sick Deer
          • Human Health and CWD
            • Guidance for Hunters Requesting CWD Testing for Harvested Deer
          • Tracking Chronic Wasting Disease in Virginia
          • Transporting Carcasses Into, Within, and Out of DMA1
          • Transporting Carcasses Into, Within, and Out of DMA2
          • Use of Natural Deer Lures and Attractants in Virginia
          • Voluntary Chronic Wasting Disease Testing in Disease Management Area 1
          • Voluntary Chronic Wasting Disease Testing in Disease Management Area 2
          • What are Prions?
          • What is Virginia Doing about CWD?
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