{"id":36418,"date":"2022-07-13T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=36418"},"modified":"2022-07-12T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:17:30","slug":"waterfowl-blind-site-licensing-process-now-available-for-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/07\/13\/waterfowl-blind-site-licensing-process-now-available-for-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfowl Blind Site Licensing Process Now Available for 2022-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Online Lottery, Virtual Appointments to Secure Hunting Locations<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51308949781_2a8d7fc976_o.png\" alt=\"Photo of hunter in a duck blind surrounded by water\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jake McPherson, Ducks Unlimited<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(DNR) is again offering an online-only process for Maryland hunters to apply for a 2022-2023\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Licenses\/Offshore-Blind-Site-Licensing-Information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">waterfowl blind site license<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. From now through July 26 at 11:59 p.m., hunters may enter the annual lottery for the opening days of blind site licensing through the department\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compass<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0licensing portal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunters can register to be entered into a random lottery for a county of their choice. Landowners who would like to license their own property may also enter the same lottery.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lottery entrants will be asked to provide a current email address and phone number where they can be reached in the event of any connection problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is no charge to enter the lottery. Hunters must be Maryland residents and must have purchased either a 2021-2022 or 2022-2023 Maryland hunting license prior to their appointment to license sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional information and important instructions are available on the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Licenses\/Offshore-Blind-Site-Licensing-Information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">department&#8217;s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Winners of the lottery will be posted on the department\u2019s website and will be notified by email with the time and date for a virtual online meeting. These virtual meetings will begin August 2, and continue during normal business hours. In some counties, appointments will take place on multiple business days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the opening days, licensing for all counties will occur by appointment only.\u00a0 Customers may begin making <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Licenses\/Offshore-Blind-Site-Licensing-Information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">appointments online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on August 10 for virtual meetings that will begin August 17. Customers who schedule an appointment will receive an email that includes a link to communicate with DNR staff at the appropriate date and time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Lottery, Virtual Appointments to Secure Hunting Locations The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0(DNR) is again offering an online-only process for Maryland hunters to apply for a 2022-2023\u00a0waterfowl blind site license. From now through July 26 at 11:59 p.m., hunters may enter the annual lottery for the opening days of blind site licensing through the department\u2019s\u00a0Compass\u00a0licensing<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/07\/13\/waterfowl-blind-site-licensing-process-now-available-for-2022-23\/\">&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":[957,3172,13],"tags":[4960,5294,3028,3030],"class_list":["post-36418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-hunting","tag-license","tag-offshore-blind","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36418","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=36418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36422,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36418\/revisions\/36422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}