{"id":39183,"date":"2023-09-08T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=39183"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:59:30","slug":"maryland-2023-black-bear-hunt-lottery-results-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/09\/08\/maryland-2023-black-bear-hunt-lottery-results-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland 2023 Black Bear Hunt Lottery Results Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1479\/26621366612_a23152b34a.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of a bear in a meadow\" width=\"354\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Larry Smail for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has announced the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/2023-Black-Bear-Lottery-Results.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lottery results<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the 2023\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/BlackBearHunt.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">black bear hunt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Having been selected by random drawing, the 950 successful applicants will receive a permit valid for the six-day hunting season open from October 23-28 in Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, and Washington counties.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe black bear hunt provides a unique opportunity for hunters to pursue one of our greatest natural resources here in the state and contribute to the management of the species,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Acting Director Karina Stonesifer said. \u201cCongratulations to those successful applicants \u2013 we wish you all good luck and safe hunting during our 20th annual black bear season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Successful applicants will receive an email or letter in the mail with further instructions on how to finalize the permitting process. As a reminder, permittees are allowed to designate up to two sub-permittees that must be specified prior to the hunt. Any successful applicant that has not received a notification by Sept. 20, 2023 should email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:blackbear.dnr@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blackbear.dnr@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or call 301-334-4255.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0has announced the lottery results for the 2023\u00a0black bear hunt. Having been selected by random drawing, the 950 successful applicants will receive a permit valid for the six-day hunting season open from October 23-28 in Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, and Washington counties.<\/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":[956,957],"tags":[3960,5234],"class_list":["post-39183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alert","category-appnews","tag-black-bear-hunt","tag-lottery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183","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=39183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39185,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions\/39185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}