Websites and PDF files

• Functions of the Natural Resources Police. From the Maryland State Archives Maryland Manual.
• Maryland Natural Resources Police History
• Oyster Police Act 1868 
• Game Warden Act 1896 
• Organizational Changes 1868-2005
• State of Maryland - First State Oyster Police Force Report to the General Assembly of Maryland , October, 1869
• State of Maryland - State Oyster Police Force Report to the General Assembly of Maryland, October, 1869
• Board of Commissioners of the State Oyster Police Force (Minutes) 1868-1880

Annual Reports (in chronological order)

• Annual Report of the Commander of Maryland State Fishery Force, to the Board of Public Works. (Published 1892 and 1894). Available at Maryland State Law Library.  Search the Maryland State Law Library catalog.
• Annual report of State Game Warden and ... annual report of Maryland State Game and Inland Fish Commission. (Published 1939-1969) Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.
• Annual Report of the Maryland Natural Resources Police (Published 1974-1993, 2006). Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.

Books and Articles

• Bartles, Greg and Paul M. Hanyok. (1996). A Century of Service. Maryland Fish & Wildlife News 4(4): 10-11, 19. 
• Kimmel, Ross M. (2008). Oyster Wars, The Historic Fight for the Bay's Riches. The Maryland Natural Resource. Winter 2008: 4-6. 
• Maryland Natural Resources Police. (1994). Maryland natural resources police: a graphic history. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Natural Resources Police. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.
• Plummer, Norman H. (1993). Maryland's oyster navy: The first fifty years. Chestertown, MD: Literary House Press, Washington College. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.
• Wennersten, John R. (1981). The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, Md. : Tidewater Publishers.  Available at the DNR Library.  View the DNR Library catalog record.