{"id":138,"date":"2018-11-05T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:09:13","slug":"media-contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/media-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><strong>All media inquiries to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources should begin with the Office of Communications. <\/strong><strong>Emails to the following contacts are the best way to assure a timely response.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><strong>For inquiries to Natural Resources Police anytime, email <a href=\"mailto:nrppio.dnr@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nrppio.dnr@maryland.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>\n<address><b>Gregg Bortz<\/b><\/address>\n<address>Media Relations Manager<\/address>\n<address>410-260-8001<\/address>\n<address>(Leave a message at this number at any time)<\/address>\n<address><a href=\"mailto:Gregg.Bortz1@Maryland.gov\">gregg.bortz1@Maryland.gov<\/a><\/address>\n<\/address>\n<address>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Hunter Dortenzo<\/strong><br \/>\nPublic Information Officer &#8211; Natural Resources Police<br \/>\n410-533-3170 <br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:vincent.dortenzo@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vincent.dortenzo@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b><\/b><strong>A.J. Metcalf<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector of Communications<br \/>\n410-260-8004<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"mailto:andrew.metcalf@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">andrew.metcalf@maryland.gov<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachael Pacella<\/strong><br \/>\nPublic Information Officer<br \/>\n410-260-8002<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rachael.pacella@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rachael.pacella@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Zimmermann<\/strong><br \/>\nScience Writer<br \/>\n410-260-8008<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:joseph.zimmermann@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joseph.zimmermann@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All media inquiries to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources should begin with the Office of Communications. Emails to the following contacts are the best way to assure a timely response.\u00a0 \u00a0 For inquiries to Natural Resources Police anytime, email nrppio.dnr@maryland.gov \u00a0 Gregg Bortz Media Relations Manager 410-260-8001 (Leave a message at this number at<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/media-contact\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45823,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/45823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}