{"id":44510,"date":"2025-04-29T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=44510"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:05:35","slug":"offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-maryland-riparian-landowners-open-though-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/04\/29\/offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-maryland-riparian-landowners-open-though-may-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Blind and Shoreline Licensing for Maryland Riparian Landowners Open Though May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51308949781_3125e837c9_w.jpg\" alt=\"Man in an offshore hunting blind\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jake McPherson, Ducks Unlimited, used with permission by Maryland DNR.<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">applications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for riparian (waterfront) property owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riparian property owners may license their shoreline to establish offshore stationary blinds or blind sites for hunting waterfowl, and\/or prevent others from licensing and hunting the shoreline at a later date. Owners can also grant permission for others to license their shoreline.\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, 2025. Property owners may license their shoreline for one year ($20) or three years ($60). Landowners who miss the May 31 deadline may participate in the \u201copen\u201d licensing process that begins August 5, 2025.\u00a0<\/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\"><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. <\/span><b>To make an in-person appointment, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">property owners or their designees can email\u00a0<\/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 call 410-260-8540.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife and Heritage Service is now accepting waterfowl offshore blind and shoreline license applications for riparian (waterfront) property owners. Riparian property owners may license their shoreline to establish offshore stationary blinds or blind sites for hunting waterfowl, and\/or prevent others from licensing and hunting the shoreline at a<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/04\/29\/offshore-blind-and-shoreline-licensing-for-maryland-riparian-landowners-open-though-may-31\/\">&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-44510","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\/44510","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=44510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44513,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510\/revisions\/44513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}