{"id":18352,"date":"2017-10-27T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:42:54","slug":"black-bear-hunt-concludes-in-western-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/10\/27\/black-bear-hunt-concludes-in-western-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Hunt Concludes in Western Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Results Indicate 131 Bears Harvested<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4162\/34275415651_bd603fb023_b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of black bear stamp\" width=\"350\" height=\"203\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Color by Steve Oliver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unpredictable weather conditions in \u201cMountain Maryland\u201d didn\u2019t hamper hunters from enjoying time afield this week during the state&#8217;s 2017 Black Bear Hunting Season.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the 14th annual hunt reveal that 131 hunters successfully harvested a bruin over the four-day hunt in western Maryland despite battling heavy rains, reduced daylight and dropping temperatures.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled with another successful bear hunt and view it as further evidence that the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">department<\/a> is managing the state&#8217;s black bear population effectively,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a> Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWith such an expanding and healthy bear population throughout western Maryland, this hunt is an essential management tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For just the second year, hunters were allowed to harvest bears in all four western counties: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett and Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistics from the 2017 Maryland Black Bear Hunt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>131 black bears harvested\n<ul>\n<li>23 from Allegany County<\/li>\n<li>2 from Frederick County<\/li>\n<li>104 from Garrett County<\/li>\n<li>2 from Washington County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>152 pounds average weight of the bears<\/li>\n<li>69 percent of bears taken on private land<\/li>\n<li>5,453 hunters applied for a permit\n<ul>\n<li>1,683 hunters participated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18426 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h.png\" alt=\"Infographic on the 2017 Black Bear Hunt\" width=\"3603\" height=\"1805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h.png 3603w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/Bear-Hunt-Infographic-2017h-1024x513.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3603px) 100vw, 3603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results Indicate 131 Bears Harvested Unpredictable weather conditions in \u201cMountain Maryland\u201d didn\u2019t hamper hunters from enjoying time afield this week during the state&#8217;s 2017 Black Bear Hunting Season. Results of the 14th annual hunt reveal that 131 hunters successfully harvested a bruin over the four-day hunt in western Maryland despite battling heavy rains, reduced daylight<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/10\/27\/black-bear-hunt-concludes-in-western-maryland\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/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":[957,3172,13],"tags":[2948,2946,3960,2918,2949,2945,2909],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-allegany-county","tag-bears","tag-black-bear-hunt","tag-frederick-county","tag-garrett-county","tag-paul-peditto","tag-washington-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","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=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18428,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/18428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}