Muleskinner
Ultimate Member
DNR (in MD) aren't bound by property lines, fences.... nothing.
To my knowledge, they can enter a property at will without warning or warrant. That was what we were told a few years ago while being checked. We also told the guy if he was going to take any longer he'd need to go ahead and get IN the blind so we could stop fugging around and kill birds.
Who ever told you that was full of crap. All law enforcement virtually everywhere has to have probable cause to enter your property without permission. If they come onto your property without permission they are trespassing just like you or I if we entered somebody else's property without permission. Now they may take liberties with the definition of probable cause and I have seen that happen but they cannot indiscriminately enter your private property without a warrant or probable cause. Even if you're hunting on someone else's property as long as you have a lease and written permission they still have to get permission to enter the property. If you have a legal lease you can grant them permission or ask them to leave if you don't have a legal lease they have to get permission from the landowner.