INDIANAPOLIS — Last year, Hoosier trappers killed 250 bobcats. It was the first time the state’s only native wild cat had been legally hunted since 1969.
Now, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources wants to expand the hunting of the once-endangered animal. A recent proposal seeks to increase the quota by 60% while also allowing Hoosier hunters to kill bobcats in more ways.
For more than 50 years, bobcats were listed as an endangered species in Indiana. Then, in 2024, State Senator Scott Baldwin, a hunter himself, pushed a hotly debated law that required DNR to establish a bobcat hunting season…