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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Indiana Department of Natural Resources has ended bobcat trapping season early. Originally, the agency had set bobcat trapping season to run from Nov. 8 to Jan. 31. A season-long quota of 250 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...