Indiana's first bobcat trapping season since 1969 has ended more than a month early. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) closed the trapping season Dec. 6 because the annual limit of animals had been killed.

The season opened Nov. 8 and was slated to run through Jan. 31, or whenever the statewide quota of 250 bobcats was met. Trappers were allowed to take one animal per season.

"The harvest seemed to go pretty smoothly," says Geriann Albers, DNR furbearer and gamebird program leader. "We did think, with the interest in this being the first season, we were likely to close before the potential end of Jan. 31, and we did. ... We haven't heard anything negative from our harvesters, so, hopefully everything went pretty smoothly for them, too."

Albers says the final count of 253 bobcats

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