{"id":31894,"date":"2020-10-28T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31894"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:19:31","slug":"input-sought-on-maryland-white-tailed-deer-management-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/10\/28\/input-sought-on-maryland-white-tailed-deer-management-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Input Sought on Maryland White-tailed Deer Management Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Comments Taken on Draft Plan through Nov. 27<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Buck Buddies by Tim Ray\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marylanddnr\/49179094262\/in\/photolist-2hVMHmj-2ifmZC4-21DQcnc-DkNkRt-RCfhUG-RFNXBD-RFNXbD-DkNkQ6-2i97R6n-2ibrTYh-2hRhbeR-2ijshuE-2ivfWHh-2iveQpM-2imbqpu-2i94faT-2i96M6K-2iAxyWo-2i97R8g-2i94fb9-2i97R8w-2i94fdi-2jcby6N-2i25H6e-qszTVY-2aa5F4o-qsADc9-qJZwuk-2jhpNzk-qsAC7o-pNo3WF-qJZw4a-2j17JaU-2jo8c4r-pifxXt-2jo8c84-qGSjis-qGSjiC-ei2TvF-qJZvmD-qK5LK5-QMRA6G-Zc8nZB-2jcfBtv-2coc4uF-2jcegMN-YNh9sL-NjkCUy-Nnzq2T-NjkDbq\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-context=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49179094262_6e80bc50e9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of bucks by Tim Ray\" width=\"367\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bucks by Tim Ray<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/2020-2034MarylandWTDeerPlan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft 2020-2034 White-tailed Deer Management Plan<\/a>. The plan establishes long-term goals for white-tailed deer management in Maryland, and identifies specific objectives and strategies for achieving those goals.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To develop the draft, the department used input from the public, obtained through a stakeholder group and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/2018_DeerPublicOpinionSurvey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">opinion surveys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to develop a well-rounded, science-based plan for the coming years. Maryland\u2019s first deer plan was created in 1998 and revised once in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are pleased to present the 2020-2034 White-tailed Deer Management Plan for public review,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWe look forward to this phase of the public process as it always helps inform and improve our ability to manage deer for all Maryland citizens.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The public can <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">view the draft plan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/Comments\/Deer_Management_Plan\/How-to-Comment.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comment online<\/a> from Oct. 28 through Nov. 27. The department will also accept feedback by phone at 410-260-8540, by fax at 410-260-8596, or in writing to Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife and Heritage Service, 580 Taylor Avenue, E-1, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Comments Taken on Draft Plan through Nov. 27 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has produced a draft 2020-2034 White-tailed Deer Management Plan. The plan establishes long-term goals for white-tailed deer management in Maryland, and identifies specific objectives and strategies for achieving those goals.\u00a0<\/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":[957,3172,13],"tags":[4960,2945,4224],"class_list":["post-31894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-hunting","tag-paul-peditto","tag-white-tailed-deer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31894","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=31894"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31998,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31894\/revisions\/31998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}