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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Bobcat trapping season will go into effect this autumn after the controversial measure passed its final hurdle as the Indiana Natural Resource Commission signed off on allowing ...

Stop destroying Indiana's only native wild cat for the "recreation" of the 0.18% of Hoosiers who are expected to trap or hunt them. Inhumane cable neck snares that are used to slowly suffocate bobcats ...

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 ...

Nick Erny spends an hour or two each day with his 12-year-old son, walking through the Dubois County woods and checking on a dozen or so bobcat traps they set out earlier this month. This year marks ...

Indiana’s first bobcat trapping season in more than five decades ended nearly two months early after trappers met the statewide quota within four weeks of opening day. The Indiana Department of ...

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19 th Century when market hunters, for example, shot ...

Bobcat hunters can set traps this winter in five local Indiana counties. Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission has approved a bobcat trapping season in 40 southern Indiana counties, including ...

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 ...