Whipstock Hill Wildlife Management Area is a 425-acre parcel owned by the State of Vermont and managed by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. Vermont Agency of Transportation purchased the land and transferred it to Fish & Wildlife as mitigation for deer wintering habitat that was lost in the Bennington bypass construction. e parcel is located in the town of Bennington. It can be accessed on the eastern boundary from Walloomsac and Whipstock Roads. Both accesses are undeveloped. Whipstock Hill is located in the Taconic Mountains and has a diversity of habitats. is parcel is noted for its deer wintering area and a signi cant geological feature known as a Wild ysch Conglomerate (rocks with a strong and often folded foliation in a slate or schist matrix surrounding blocks of varying size and rock type). Whipstock wetlands, located along the eastern section of the parcel, comprise 80 acres and are a class two state signi cant wetland. e forest surrounding the wetlands is dominated by early succession species, unfortunately including a host of exotic species. e upper elevations are less disturbed and dominated by a mature forest consisting of red oak, white oak, sugar maple, red maple, shagbark hickory, and bitternut hickory. Several plantations of mature pine are scattered throughout the parcel.