{"id":8088,"date":"2015-01-28T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:35:54","slug":"maryland-announces-preliminary-winter-turkey-season-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/01\/28\/maryland-announces-preliminary-winter-turkey-season-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Announces Preliminary Winter Turkey Season Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Strutting

Strutting by Lori R. Bramble<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Hunters reported taking 108 wild turkeys<\/a> during Maryland\u2019s inaugural winter turkey season that was open January 22-24 statewide. This season was established to provide hunters additional turkey hunting opportunities while minimizing conflicts with other hunting seasons.<\/p>\n

Turkeys were taken in 21 of the 23 counties, with Dorchester, Garrett, Queen Anne\u2019s, St. Mary\u2019s and Worcester reporting the highest numbers. Eighty-nine percent were taken on private lands. Adult males comprised about 38 percent of the harvest with the remainder females and juvenile birds. Ninety-two percent were taken with a shotgun, but a handful of hunters used a cross- or vertical-bow to harvest their winter turkey.<\/p>\n

Turkey populations were very limited in Maryland until an extensive DNR program to trap and relocate wild flocks in the 1980s and 1990s successfully established populations in every county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
County<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 Harvest<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allegany<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anne Arundel<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Calvert<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caroline<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carroll<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cecil<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charles<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dorchester<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frederick<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garrett<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harford<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Howard<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kent<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Montgomery<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prince George’s<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Queen Anne’s<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Somerset<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Mary’s<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Talbot<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Washington<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wicomico<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Worcester<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 Total<\/strong><\/td>\n108<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunters reported taking 108 wild turkeys during Maryland\u2019s inaugural winter turkey season that was open January 22-24 statewide. This season was established to provide hunters additional turkey hunting opportunities while minimizing conflicts with other hunting seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}