{"id":38454,"date":"2023-03-29T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=38454"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:02:01","slug":"maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/03\/29\/maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-applications-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Department of Natural Resources Announces Offshore Blind and Shoreline Licensing Applications Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications Must Be Postmarked by May 31, 2023<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" 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 an offshore blind after sunset\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Offshore blind site, photo by Jake McPherson, Ducks Unlimited<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/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\"> today announced that waterfront, or riparian, property owners can now apply for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/pages\/licenses\/riparian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offshore blind and shoreline licenses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to establish sites for hunting waterfowl or prevent others from licensing their property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a stretch of shoreline is licensed, no other person may receive a license for the same shoreline, whether or not the original licensee establishes a blind at that location.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riparian property owners, or anyone who has been granted written permission from the owner, may license their shoreline for one year for $20 or three years for $60.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applicants must submit paperwork and fees by mail, postmarked no later than May 31, 2023.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riparian landowners who miss the May 31 deadline may participate in the \u201copen\u201d offshore blind site licensing process that begins August 1, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications and information on laws related to shoreline licensing for riparian property owners are available at the Department of Natural Resources <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Licenses\/riparian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or by calling the Wildlife and Heritage Service at 410-260-8538, toll free at 1-877-620-8367.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications Must Be Postmarked by May 31, 2023 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources today announced that waterfront, or riparian, property owners can now apply for offshore blind and shoreline licenses to establish sites for hunting waterfowl or prevent others from licensing their property. After a stretch of shoreline is licensed, no other person may<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/03\/29\/maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-applications-now-open\/\">&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":[4960,3028,3027,3029,3030],"class_list":["post-38454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting","tag-offshore-blind","tag-riparian-property","tag-shoreline-licensing","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454","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=38454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38456,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454\/revisions\/38456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}