{"id":9298,"date":"2015-10-29T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:59:28","slug":"fall-turkey-season-to-open-in-western-maryland-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/10\/29\/fall-turkey-season-to-open-in-western-maryland-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Turkey Season to Open in Western Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Fall-Gobblers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5028\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Fall-Gobblers-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Fall-Gobblers\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Fall-Gobblers-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Fall-Gobblers.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Maryland\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/WildTurkeyHunting.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Turkey Hunting Season<\/a> will open Oct. 31 and continue through Nov. 7, 2015 in Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/wild-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">bag limit<\/a>\u00a0of one turkey per hunter.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/2015_wt_observe_survey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Wild Turkey Observation Survey Summary<\/a> shows reproduction in 2015 was near average in western Maryland, which should translate to moderate numbers of turkeys this fall. Surveys also show that acorn production is light and inconsistent this year, giving hunters an additional advantage as turkeys will be more visible as they travel farther in search of this key food source.<\/p>\n<p>Complete\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/wild-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">turkey hunting regulations<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/tagging-checking\/\" target=\"_blank\">check-in procedures<\/a>\u00a0and information on public land hunting opportunities can be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/\" target=\"_blank\">dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland\u2019s Fall Turkey Hunting Season will open Oct. 31 and continue through Nov. 7, 2015 in Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties with a\u00a0bag limit\u00a0of one turkey per hunter.<\/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-9298","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\/9298","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=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}