The amount of active trapping licenses in the state has remained stable despite less people laying traps, according to Hawley. The state had 915 trapping licenses in 2017 and 932 in 2024 ...

Trapping is expected to begin on Sept. 1, “after the nesting and hatching season has ended, for which peafowl chicks are able to function on their own,” according to the staff report.

NRC members voted to approve bobcat trapping rules in Indiana. The state set a 250 bobcat statewide quota for 40 counties. Indiana’s controversial bobcat trapping rules moved forward during an ...

Indiana Natural Resources Commission is holding a public hearing in Franklin as part of the establishing trapping rules for bobcats. Photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife At a meeting to be ...