{"id":11724,"date":"2016-10-17T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:12:10","slug":"deer-hunting-opens-at-myrtle-point-park-cooperative-wildlife-management-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/10\/17\/deer-hunting-opens-at-myrtle-point-park-cooperative-wildlife-management-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Hunting Opens at Myrtle Point Park Cooperative Wildlife Management Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>County, State\u00a0Partnership\u00a0Provides New Bowhunting Opportunity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11735\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"myrtlepointpark\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MyrtlePointPark.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>A new partnership between the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a><\/span> and St. Mary\u2019s County will now permit deer hunting at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Myrtle+Point+Park\/@38.3260447,-76.4984273,15z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xc9d41a99838d7e72!8m2!3d38.3260447!4d-76.4984273\" target=\"_blank\">Myrtle Point Park<\/a><\/span>. Approximately 141 acres of the 192-acre park in California, Md. will be open to regulated archery activity, effective immediately.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our partnership with the county will provide another outdoors\u00a0experience\u00a0for Maryland archers and bowhunters,\u201d said Wildlife and Heritage Service Southern Region Manager Dave Heilmeier. \u201cThe benefits of the hunt are two-fold: it provides a new recreational opportunity for Southern Maryland hunters and addresses the unchecked growth of the deer population in the park and\u00a0surrounding community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The managed program will follow <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">all established season dates and limits<\/a><\/span>\u00a0however no Saturday hunting will be permitted in October<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8609\/16286507182_a7d3a2f889_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8609\/16286507182_a7d3a2f889_b.jpg\" alt=\"Deer\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>Access to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/MyrtlePoint_CWMA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">park<\/a><\/span> will require possession of a free <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/wmasouthern.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Region Public Hunting\u00a0Permit<\/a> and a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/southern\/myrtlegrove.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">daily reservation<\/a><\/span>. Hunters must park in designated areas only and observe all posted boundaries. The seasonal parking permit must also be displayed on windshields.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on hunting at the Myrtle Point Park Cooperative Wildlife Management Area, please call 301-743-5161. For more general information about park, please contact St. Mary\u2019s County Recreation and Parks at 301-475-4200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County, State\u00a0Partnership\u00a0Provides New Bowhunting Opportunity A new partnership between the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and St. Mary\u2019s County will now permit deer hunting at Myrtle Point Park. Approximately 141 acres of the 192-acre park in California, Md. will be open to regulated archery activity, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11745,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions\/11745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}