Indiana's Natural Resources Commission held the final public hearing on controversial plan to resume bobcat trapping in the state.

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.

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.

The proposed rule changes would add bobcats to the list of species for which a game breeder’s license is required, establish a bobcat trapping season in 40 southern Indiana counties, including a ...

FRANKLIN — 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 ...