As publishedOct 3 - Dec 31, 2026
Official MD DNR 2026-2027 calendar (primary/verbatim) confirms these dates.Bag/possession limits sourced from eRegulations (SECONDARY); date range matches the primary calendar exactly. Sunday hunting permitted in certain counties per the calendar's Sunday Small Game Hunting table.
MD DNR runs a real, currently-maintained annual volunteer Hunter Cooperator Survey (hunters report county and flush counts via a downloadable log) — confirmed active via a fresh 2026-08-19 direct fetch of DNR's grouse management page ("You can help us manage this great game bird by participating in our annual volunteer cooperator survey"), though no discrete published report with a confirmed 2026 date was found. The separate spring roadside drumming-count survey (since 1964) has an unconfirmed current status — the last confirmed edition via a secondary/archived citation was 2016; this pass could not confirm whether it's still run. Closed as not_yet_published rather than no_program since at least one instrument (the Cooperator Survey) is confirmed live and ongoing.