The area in southeast-central Louisiana from Simmesport, bounded by LA 1 and LA 114 to Alexandria, LA 28/US 84 to Ferriday and south along the Mississippi River contains the Pomme de Terre WMA (6,434 acres), Spring Bayou Wildlife Management Area (12,506 acres), Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge (6,077 acres), Dewey W. Wills Wildlife Management Area (63,901 acres), Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge (13,200 acres), Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area (69,806 acres), and the Lake Ophelia National Wildlife Refuge (25,000 acres) and totals 196922 acres of protected land.