INDIANAPOLIS — Bobcat trapping season will go into effect this autumn after the controversial measure passed its final hurdle ...

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The approved trapping season will extend to 40 southern Indiana counties and place a limit of one bobcat per trapper. The entire season is capped at 250 bobcats for all trappers combined.

According to a bill analysis, trapping tripled between 2009 and 2012, with an estimated 1,299 bobcats killed in the 2011-12 hunting season, compared with 457 in the 2009-10 season.

That proposal allows trapping to continue in hot spots that include Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, where 537 bobcats were taken in the 2013-14 season. Statewide, 1,300 bobcats ...

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Wednesday to ban bobcat trapping. The ban does not affect bobcat hunting. About 1,300 were trapped in 2011-12. Dennis Magee (Peoria, Ill.) Herald ...

The Bobcat Protection Act, AB 1213, written by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) and signed into law in 2013, prohibited bobcat trapping outside Joshua Tree National Park—where bobcats ...

Another activist called hunting and trapping "cruel," pointing to a specific example in Florida, where bobcat hunting is legal. Staff from Big Cat Rescue, a national nonprofit, were called to help ...

Once established, the new rules would allow Hoosiers to trap bobcat in 40 southern counties and set an individual bag limit of one cat per trapper and a statewide season quota of 250 bobcats total.

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 ...

And finally, 11 days of trapping and hunting is expected to become legal in the new, most southern bobcat unit. Trapping would be from Dec. 10 to 20 and hunting from Jan. 1 to 11 across Muskegon ...