Bobcat season is coming to Indiana after a crucial Tuesday vote. (Photo courtesy the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) After receiving more than 3,000 public comments, Indiana’s Natural Resources ...

Natural Resources Commission member Patrick Early (left), department Director Dan Bortner and commission Chair Bryan Poynter at a commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Leslie Bonilla ...

Only 40 counties, all in southern Indiana, were open to bobcat trapping, where bobcat populations are strongest.

Bobcats — love them or hate them — are on their way to becoming targets for hunters in Indiana as soon as next year. After contentious testimony at the statehouse, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed SB 241 ...

Indiana closes bobcat trapping season after reaching quota of 250 in 4 weeks. First season since 1969 sparks controversy over animal welfare.

The Indiana Natural Resources Commission is considering a new rule allowing trophy hunters and trappers to kill up to 250 bobcats. A hearing on the new rule will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at the ...

Data from the season could settle a long debate between trappers and wildlife advocates about how many bobcats are in Indiana ...

The bill's author, hunters, and trappers say bobcats – like this one photographed in California – are reducing populations of small game like rabbits in Indiana. A state Senate bill, SB 241, would ...

About a dozen people gathered Thursday at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Franklin to ask the Indiana Natural Resources Commission to set a regulated trapping of bobcats quota to zero and to allow ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has voted to allow bobcat trapping in 40 counties across the state. It has an issue that regulators have been debating since at least ...

Natural Resources Commission member Patrick Early (left), department Director Dan Bortner and commission Chair Bryan Poynter at a commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Leslie Bonilla ...