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 ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources opened the controversial bobcat trapping season this month. Some say more data is needed.

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, are open to bobcat trapping, where bobcat populations are strongest.

The state's natural resource managers will hold a public hearing Thursday in southern Indiana on the upcoming bobcat trapping set to start next year despite concerns from many Hoosiers. The Natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Indiana DNR has started allowing people to trap bobcats once again in certain southern Indiana counties, this year through January or until there are 250 bobcats ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — On Tuesday, the Indiana Natural Resources Committee (NRC) voted to approve a proposal that sets parameters for a bobcat trapping season in Indiana. The approval took place ...

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 ...