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1 _$ E8 U% q. |3 M2 zIn 1963, the WMA was named in honor of John David Murphree, a Texas Game Warden who was murdered by a duck poacher in Jasper County.* n; m# n6 Q, p5 a* [0 o
( V+ G! D* ^ jThe original 8,200 acres of land for the wildlife management area was purchased in 1957 from the William Perry Herring McFaddin heirs. The McFaddin family owned thousands of acres of land of which some was received for service in the Texas army during the Texas Revolution. William M. McFaddin, his son William Perry Herring McFaddin and family were pioneer settlers in the Beaumont area, ranching, rice farming, commercial, fur trapping, and searching for oil.
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+ ^( K+ G5 @9 o0 a$ o" Q/ NThe J. D. Murphree WMA is a 24,498 acre tract of fresh, intermediate and brackish water coastal marsh on the upper coast of Texas. The original 8,312 acres of the Big Hill Unit were acquired in 1958 using funds generated by waterfowl stamp and hunting license sales. The Lost Lake Unit was acquired in 1983 through mitigation. An additional 11,231.23-acre tract was added to the Area in August 1997, in a trade of Sheldon WMA lands for lands in Sea Rim State Park. This acreage was added to the Lost Lake Unit and re-designated as the Salt Bayou Unit (15,595 acres). The Area represents the coastal marshes of the Texas Chenier Plain and is managed as wetland habitat with a special emphasis on migratory waterfowl habitat. The Hillebrandt Unit (591 acres) was added to the Area as mitigation in 1987. These wetlands are part of the Texas Chenier Plain, the westernmost geologic delta of the Mississippi River.
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The WMA headquarters is on the south side of Highway 73 at the intersection of Jade Avenue in Port Arthur.# `+ u! e) t/ e" Q+ C
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