{"id":29902,"date":"2020-01-09T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=29902"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:41:10","slug":"winter-turkey-season-opens-jan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/01\/09\/winter-turkey-season-opens-jan-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Turkey Season Opens Jan. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another Chance to Bag a Hen or Gobbler<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47687412151_56511658ab.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of two wild turkeys\" width=\"395\" height=\"223\" \/>The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0announces the opening of the winter turkey season, which runs statewide from January 23-25 for hunters who did not harvest a turkey during the 2019 fall season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunting hours are from one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset. The\u00a0bag limit\u00a0is one turkey of either sex.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWild turkey populations are at an all-time high in much of Maryland,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cThe winter season provides a fantastic opportunity to get outdoors after other popular hunting seasons are winding down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the winter turkey season, Maryland hunters may only use shotguns loaded with No. 4 shot or smaller, crossbows, vertical bows, or airguns that shoot arrows or bolts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunters are reminded that\u00a0it is illegal to hunt turkeys with the aid of bait.\u00a0Hunters are required to check in their harvest via phone at 888-800-0121,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0or via the\u00a0department\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/dnrapp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mobile app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/turkey-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Guide to Hunting and Trapping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0provides information about winter turkey hunting, including season open dates and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Chance to Bag a Hen or Gobbler The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0announces the opening of the winter turkey season, which runs statewide from January 23-25 for hunters who did not harvest a turkey during the 2019 fall season. Hunting hours are from one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset. The\u00a0bag limit\u00a0is one<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/01\/09\/winter-turkey-season-opens-jan-23\/\">&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":[4960,4498,3122,3881,5129],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting","tag-hunting-seasons","tag-turkey","tag-wild-turkey","tag-winter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902","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=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29905,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions\/29905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}