
Buckmasters News

2023 CRP signup open through April 7
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for its voluntary Conservation Reserve Program. Private landowners can apply at their local USDA...

Tagging study offers $10-$200 rewards on invasive snakeheads
Tagged invasive snakeheads caught in the Chesapeake Bay or Blackwater River are worth up to $200 each with a new tagging program offered in conjunction with...

Fall turkey season opens Oct. 28 in western Maryland
Fall turkey hunting season opens Oct. 28 and continues through Nov. 4 in Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties, with a bag limit of one turkey per hunter.

First primitive deer hunt runs Feb. 1-3
Maryland’s first Primitive Deer Hunt will be open Feb. 1-3, 2021 statewide.
Hunters with a valid hunting license, or those exempt from the hunting license...

Muzzleloader season reopens Dec. 21
The second segment of the muzzleloader deer hunting season opens Dec. 21 and runs through Jan. 4. Hunters may use muzzleloading firearms to harvest sika and...

Lots of opportunity for small game and turkey hunting
The Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that squirrel, rabbit, fall turkey and other seasons are either underway or set to open in the coming...

Winter turkey harvest 24% lower for 2022
Hunters reported taking 67 wild turkeys during the 2022 winter turkey season, which was open statewide Jan. 20-22. This year’s harvest was 24% lower than the...

Hunters harvest record 3,303 spring turkeys
Maryland hunters reported harvesting 4,303 wild turkeys during the regular spring and junior turkey seasons, with record high harvests in nine counties.
The...

Primitive deer hunt runs Feb. 1-3
A final opportunity of the 2021-22 deer season, the Primitive Deer Hunt, runs Feb. 1-3 statewide for hunters with a valid hunting license as well as those...

Firearms opening day harvest up 29%
Despite wind and rain hampering the overall weekend, hunters reported 8,061 deer were taken on opening day of the 2019 Maryland firearm season, Nov. 30.
The...

Hunting licenses, stamps, permit prices increase
Legislation passed during Maryland’s 2023 General Assembly will increase the price of hunting licenses and some associated stamps beginning with the 2023-24...