{"id":28642,"date":"2019-09-18T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2019-09-18T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:20:37","slug":"mentored-pheasant-hunts-offered-november-23-24-in-garrett-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/18\/mentored-pheasant-hunts-offered-november-23-24-in-garrett-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentored Pheasant Hunts Offered Nov. 23-24 in Garrett County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opportunity for New and Lapsed Hunters<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4636\/27578267919_1fd7b05042.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of group at mentored hunt in Garrett County\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> invites all junior license holders, apprentice license holders, and lapsed hunters to apply to participate in a mentored pheasant hunt Nov. 23-24 at Wild Wings Hunting Preserve, located in Friendsville.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participants will enjoy a day at Wild Wings that will include a hunter safety review, sporting clays, ammunition, a mentor with a hunting dog, and lunch.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are very excited to offer this unique hunting opportunity,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWe are actively building a mentored hunting program and having partners such as Wild Wings is helping us to provide quality hunting experiences for those who are interested in learning or just want to get back out into the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lapsed hunter is someone who has had a Maryland hunting license in the past, but not in three of the last five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested hunters must apply to participate and space is limited to 14 hunters each day to help ensure a quality hunting experience. There is no cost to apply or participate in this mentored hunt, though participants must possess a valid Maryland hunting license. Participants will be selected via a random lottery drawing. The deadline to apply is Oct. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested hunters can apply to participate by completing an online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1E43bDkeusoPHcUPoL1PIxZ7C6O9qOphANfLai77X3d8\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">application form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Additional information can be found on the department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/Mentored-Hunt-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mentored Hunt Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> web page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone with questions may contact Nancy Doran at 301-777-2136 or by email at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:nancy.doran@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nancy.doran@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity for New and Lapsed Hunters The Maryland Department of Natural Resources invites all junior license holders, apprentice license holders, and lapsed hunters to apply to participate in a mentored pheasant hunt Nov. 23-24 at Wild Wings Hunting Preserve, located in Friendsville.\u00a0 Participants will enjoy a day at Wild Wings that will include a hunter<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/18\/mentored-pheasant-hunts-offered-november-23-24-in-garrett-county\/\">&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":[],"class_list":["post-28642","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\/28642","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=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28646,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}