{"id":41243,"date":"2024-04-04T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=41243"},"modified":"2024-04-08T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:18:03","slug":"offshore-hunting-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-riparian-landowners-is-now-open-for-2024-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/04\/offshore-hunting-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-riparian-landowners-is-now-open-for-2024-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Hunting Blind and Shoreline Licensing for Riparian Landowners is Now Open for 2024 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications Must Be Postmarked by May 31, 2024<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51308949781_3125e837c9_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of hunter in an offshore hunting blind\" width=\"353\" height=\"265\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Jake McPherson, Ducks Unlimited<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/offshore_intro.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (DNR) Wildlife and Heritage Service is now accepting waterfowl offshore blind and shoreline license <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/OSBL_App.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">applications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for waterfront, or riparian, property owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Landowners, or anyone who has been granted permission from the riparian property owner, may license their shoreline. An offshore blind and shoreline license will establish offshore stationary blinds or blind sites for hunting waterfowl, and\/or will prevent others from licensing and hunting the shoreline at a later date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Applicants must <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/OSBL_App.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>submit paperwork<\/b><\/a><b> and fees by mail, postmarked no later than May 31, 2024<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Property owners may license their shoreline for one year at $20 or three years at $60. Landowners who miss the May 31<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deadline may participate in the \u201copen\u201d licensing process that begins August 6, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tawes State Office Building is open to customers by appointment only; walk-in customers will not be accepted without a confirmed appointment. Appointments can be made by email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:obsl.md1@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">obsl.md1@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0or by calling 410-260-8540 for more information.<\/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 DNR website <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Licenses\/riparian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online<\/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, 2024 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife and Heritage Service is now accepting waterfowl offshore blind and shoreline license applications for waterfront, or riparian, property owners. Landowners, or anyone who has been granted permission from the riparian property owner, may license their shoreline. An offshore blind<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/04\/offshore-hunting-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-riparian-landowners-is-now-open-for-2024-season\/\">&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":[4960,3028,3030],"class_list":["post-41243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting","tag-offshore-blind","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243","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=41243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41270,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243\/revisions\/41270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}