{"id":26494,"date":"2019-03-11T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26494"},"modified":"2019-03-11T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:17:35","slug":"muskrat-trapping-season-extended-in-select-maryland-counties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/11\/muskrat-trapping-season-extended-in-select-maryland-counties-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskrat\u00a0Trapping Extended in Select Maryland Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Additional Time for Weather-Dampened Regions<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5285\/30150614105_ec68802021.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of muskrat\" width=\"351\" height=\"234\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Martha Johnston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0has added a week to the state&#8217;s muskrat\u00a0trapping season in Eastern, Southern and portions of Central Maryland. The revised season will now close March 22 in the affected counties to make up for unfavorable weather conditions &#8212; an extremely cold winter and recent tide fluctuations &#8212; that had limited trapper access to many waterways and wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>The season remains closed in Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard and Washington counties, where the season started early enough to provide ample trapping opportunities.\u00a0No other hunting or trapping seasons have been extended.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trappers and hunters are reminded that a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/furbearers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furbearer Permit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is required for individuals that chase, hunt, trap or otherwise pursue furbearers. Trappers who did not possess a permit or certificate of trapper education before Aug. 1, 2007, must also complete mandatory trapper education requirements. Additional information about hunting and trapping can be found in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Guide to Hunting and Trapping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Time for Weather-Dampened Regions The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0has added a week to the state&#8217;s muskrat\u00a0trapping season in Eastern, Southern and portions of Central Maryland. The revised season will now close March 22 in the affected counties to make up for unfavorable weather conditions &#8212; an extremely cold winter and recent tide fluctuations &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/11\/muskrat-trapping-season-extended-in-select-maryland-counties-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/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],"tags":[3579,4498,3687],"class_list":["post-26494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-furbearer-permit","tag-hunting-seasons","tag-trapping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494","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=26494"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26516,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}