{"id":42371,"date":"2024-09-04T11:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=42371"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T15:51:16","slug":"maryland-2024-black-bear-hunt-lottery-results-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/09\/04\/maryland-2024-black-bear-hunt-lottery-results-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland 2024 Black Bear Hunt Lottery Results Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53215656551_9ae50d50fb.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a black bear at night. \" width=\"355\" height=\"237\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by by Nathaniel Peck, submitted to the Maryland DNR Photo Contest.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/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\">\u00a0has drawn the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/2024-Black-Bear-Lottery-Results.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lottery for the 2024 Maryland Black Bear Hunt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A total of 950 lottery entrants were randomly selected and will receive a permit valid for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/BlackBearHunt.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">six-day bear hunting season<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> open from October 21-26, 2024 in Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, and Washington counties. Entrants can check the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/2024-Black-Bear-Lottery-Results.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lottery results webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for their DNR ID number.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe black bear hunt provides hunters the chance to pursue one of their favorite pastimes and make a meaningful contribution to black bear management in Maryland,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Karina Stonesifer said. \u201cCongratulations to those successful applicants \u2013 we wish you all good luck and safe hunting during our 21st annual black bear season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A total of 4,507 hunters applied for the lottery with 58% of the permits going to Western Maryland residents, 32% to all other Maryland residents, and 10% to non-residents.\u00a0<\/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 prior to the hunt and each hunting party may harvest a single bear under the permit. Any successful applicant that has not received a notification by Sept. 18, 2024 should email\u00a0<\/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\">\u00a0or call 301-334-4255.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0has drawn the\u00a0lottery for the 2024 Maryland Black Bear Hunt.\u00a0 A total of 950 lottery entrants were randomly selected and will receive a permit valid for the six-day bear hunting season open from October 21-26, 2024 in Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, and Washington counties. Entrants can check the lottery results webpage for<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/09\/04\/maryland-2024-black-bear-hunt-lottery-results-announced\/\">&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":[2946,3960,5234],"class_list":["post-42371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-bears","tag-black-bear-hunt","tag-lottery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371","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=42371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42373,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371\/revisions\/42373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}