{"id":28508,"date":"2019-09-13T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28508"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:38:08","slug":"additional-wildlife-management-areas-now-open-for-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/13\/additional-wildlife-management-areas-now-open-for-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Wildlife Management Areas Now Open for Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Public Opportunities in Charles and Queen Anne\u2019s Counties<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/jubilee-live.flickr.com\/65535\/48727163012_628f11254b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo hunting sign at wildlife management area\" width=\"360\" height=\"248\" \/>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is pleased to announce two new public hunting opportunities in state wildlife management areas. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/BrownsBranch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Browns Branch Wildlife Management Area<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Queen Anne\u2019s County and<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/PopesCreekWMA-Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Popes Creek Wildlife Management area<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Charles County are now open to regulated hunting and trapping.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunting on the 1,172-acre Browns Branch Wildlife Management Area will be managed through the department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/wmacentral.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central Region<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> public hunting permit and reservation system. Those interested in hunting the area must possess a free <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/wmacentral.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central Region<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seasonal permit and make daily reservations. Anyone interested in trapping the area should contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern\/millington.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Millington Wildlife office<\/a> at 410-928-3650. Interested hunters should contact the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/central\/gwynnbrook.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gwynnbrook Wildlife Management Area<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> office at 410-356-9272.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunting on the 522-acre Popes Creek Wildlife Management Area will be managed through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/wmasouthern.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Region<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> public hunting permit and reservation system. Those interested in hunting the area must possess a free Southern Region seasonal permit and make daily reservations. Anyone interested in trapping in the area must contact the Myrtle Grove Wildlife Management Area at 301-743-5161 for information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunting for all regulated game species will take place during established season <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/migratory-game-bird-seasons-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dates and bag limits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which are posted in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.md.us\/huntersguide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019-2020 Guide to Hunting and Trapping in Maryland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All users of wildlife management areas must park their vehicles in designated areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Public Opportunities in Charles and Queen Anne\u2019s Counties\u00a0 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is pleased to announce two new public hunting opportunities in state wildlife management areas. Browns Branch Wildlife Management Area in Queen Anne\u2019s County and Popes Creek Wildlife Management area in Charles County are now open to regulated hunting and trapping.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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":[957,3172,23,33,13],"tags":[5020,4779,4960,5018,5019,3687],"class_list":["post-28508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-land","category-the-bay","category-wildlife","tag-browns-branch-wildlife-management-area","tag-gwynnbrook-wildlife-management-area","tag-hunting","tag-millington-wildlife-management-area","tag-popes-creek-wildlife-management-area","tag-trapping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28566,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions\/28566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}