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New bobcat regulations are ‘a bad way to do the public’s business’

  • Tracy Farmer

“Are the KY wildcats in trouble?” That wasn’t a sports headline in the Kentucky Lantern, which doesn’t cover my University of Kentucky Wildcats, or any kind of sports. But the headline caught my attention because it was over a news story about the Kentucky General Assembly allowing the hunting of bobcats – the Kentucky wildcat […]

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KY lawmakers move ahead with expanded bobcat hunting despite population concerns

  • Liam Niemeyer

FRANKFORT — Regulations to expand bobcat hunting, including at night with thermal equipment, moved forward Tuesday, despite bipartisan concern from some lawmakers about the status of Kentucky’s bobcat regulation. The state legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee has the authority to vote to declare a regulation as “deficient” if lawmakers disapprove of it or recommend changes […]