You’re bound to see a variety of different wildlife living in Iowa. Bears have made their way back into the state, and we even get the occasional mountain lion sighting, too. But another, smaller cat, continues to make a comeback in Iowa. The bobcat.
Is The Bobcat Population in Iowa Growing?
Vince Evelsizer, a biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, told the Cedar Rapids Gazette that different furbearer populations in the state have been on the rise. Iowa’s bobcat population has been on the rise by about 7 percent each year since 2007. Evelsizer says that the bobcat in Iowa is a “wildlife success story.”…