{"id":9043,"date":"2015-09-03T16:53:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:08:49","slug":"record-breaking-number-of-bear-hunt-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/09\/03\/record-breaking-number-of-bear-hunt-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Number of Bear Hunt Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/blackbear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8927 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/blackbear-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"blackbear\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/blackbear-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/blackbear.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) received over 4,300 black bear lottery applications this year, which is a 19 percent increase over last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to kick-off the 2015 bear hunt in western Maryland, which is\u00a0an important management tool used to slow the growth of the state\u2019s black bear population,\u201d said Harry Spiker, DNR bear biologist.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom the total applicant pool, DNR will issue 500 permits valid for the four-day black bear hunting season, taking place October 26-29, 2015 in Garrett and Allegany counties.<\/p>\n<p>Permit winners will be <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/BlackBearHunt.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announced here<\/a> on Friday, September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) received over 4,300 black bear lottery applications this year, which is a 19 percent increase over last year. &#8220;We are excited to kick-off the 2015 bear hunt in western Maryland, which is\u00a0an important management tool used to slow the growth of the state\u2019s black bear population,\u201d said Harry<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/09\/03\/record-breaking-number-of-bear-hunt-applicants\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-9043","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\/9043","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}