“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 […]

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 […]

Chet Hayes thinks Kentucky has a decent bobcat population. Hayes, a district director for the United Trappers of Kentucky, an organization representing fur trappers throughout the state, said it’s difficult to get solid information on the elusive animal.  “It’s still growing,” Hayes told the Lantern in July. “It’s not in a position where it needs […]