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Humptulips:
An article on the study work on bobcats. Read between the lines and you get the point of trappers cooperating as best we can with getting them jaws and information.
Without good information you can bet there will be pressure to close the season.

https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/may/04/numbers-of-bobcats-unknown-in-wa-population-data-impacts-hunting-and-trapping/

Barehunter:
bobcat harvest reports seem stable over time.

Loup Loup:
It always amazes me how much of these animal articles these  grant grubbing quasi biological groups are given. And given credence like they are the experts. When they are imagining their “facts”. While trained professtional wildlife biologist are given a token paragraph or two. And while true outdoorsmen, the hunters and trappers of these animals are almost never acknowledged with a comment or concern at all. Especially when oft times we are behind the scenes capturing specimens for these groups. Because quite often, they can’t. Then if they don’t enlist trappers they attribute their lack of trapping success to “well there aren’t any badgers, bobcats, martens, etc because we didn’t catch any”.
Wildlife management by imagination.

JakeLand:

--- Quote from: Loup Loup on May 08, 2025, 11:04:26 AM ---It always amazes me how much of these animal articles these  grant grubbing quasi biological groups are given. And given credence like they are the experts. When they are imagining their “facts”. While trained professtional wildlife biologist are given a token paragraph or two. And while true outdoorsmen, the hunters and trappers of these animals are almost never acknowledged with a comment or concern at all. Especially when oft times we are behind the scenes capturing specimens for these groups. Because quite often, they can’t. Then if they don’t enlist trappers they attribute their lack of trapping success to “well there aren’t any badgers, bobcats, martens, etc because we didn’t catch any”.
Wildlife management by imagination.

--- End quote ---
exactly !!

hunter399:
Can we all say BOBCAT QUOTA.
Better believe it.

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