{"id":17118,"date":"2017-09-13T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:27:24","slug":"trapping-opportunities-on-eastern-shore-wildlife-management-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/09\/13\/trapping-opportunities-on-eastern-shore-wildlife-management-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapping Opportunities on Eastern Shore Wildlife Management Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sealed Bids Accepted Until Oct. 17<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1456\/24372102406_326e3ba8d8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Nanticoke River Wildlife Management Area\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0is currently accepting bids for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/furbearers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017-2018 trapping seasons<\/a> at several Eastern Shore Wildlife Management Areas &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/ellisbay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellis Bay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/fishingbay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fishing Bay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/idylwild.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idylwild<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/lecompte.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeCompte<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/linkwood.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linkwood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/nanticoke.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nanticoke River<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/taylorsisland.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor\u2019s Island<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/wetipquin.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetipquin<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bid packages must be picked up in person at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/2UbbuzWAecQ2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeCompte Wildlife Management Area<\/a>\u00a0in Vienna. Sealed bids must be returned there by noon Oct. 17. The bids will be opened at 1 p.m. that same day.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a>\u00a0at 410-376-3236, ext. 302 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Furbearers that can be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/furbearers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trapped<\/a>\u00a0in Maryland include: beaver, coyote, fisher, gray fox, long-tailed weasel, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, red fox, river otter and skunk. All trappers must possess both a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/furbearers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furbearer Permit<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/nrp\/Pages\/trappered.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Certificate of Trapper Education.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sealed Bids Accepted Until Oct. 17 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is currently accepting bids for the 2017-2018 trapping seasons at several Eastern Shore Wildlife Management Areas &#8211;\u00a0Ellis Bay, Fishing Bay, Idylwild,\u00a0LeCompte, Linkwood, Nanticoke River, Taylor\u2019s Island and Wetipquin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[957,3172,23,13],"tags":[2970,2922,3126,3686,3692,3693,3484,3691,3690,2933,3689,3687,3688,3276],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-land","category-wildlife","tag-caroline-county","tag-dorchester-county","tag-eastern-shore","tag-ellis-bay-wildlife-management-area","tag-fishing-bay-wildlife-management-area","tag-idylwild-wildlife-management-area","tag-lecompte-wildlife-management-area","tag-linkwood-wildlife-management-area","tag-nanticoke-river-wildlife-management-area","tag-somerset-county","tag-taylors-island-wildlife-management-area","tag-trapping","tag-wetipquin-wildlife-management-area","tag-wicomico-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17131,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}