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Illinois House OKs measure to allow bobcat hunting

Friday, March 28, 2014

FILE - In this 1996 file photo, a bobcat is seen in a tree at Wildlife Prairie Park in Peoria, Ill. Illinois lawmakers have advanced a proposal to allow bobcat hunting for the first time in more than 40 years. The Illinois House voted 91-20 Thursday in favor of the measure. It now goes to the Senate. Photo: Dennis Magee, AP / Herald & Review

FILE – In this 1996 file photo, a bobcat is seen in a tree at Wildlife Prairie Park in Peoria, Ill. Illinois lawmakers have advanced a proposal to allow bobcat hunting for the first time in more than 40 years. The Illinois House voted 91-20 Thursday in favor of the measure. It now goes to the Senate. Photo: Dennis Magee, AP

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have advanced a proposal to allow bobcat hunting for the first time in more than 40 years.

The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises reports (http://bit.ly/1iI5vfM) the Illinois House voted 91-20 Thursday in favor of the measure. It now goes to the Senate.

Illinois banned hunting of the nocturnal animal in 1972. Bobcats were on the threatened species list from 1977 to 1999.

But supporters say the population has made a comeback.

Republican state Rep. Wayne Rosenthal of Morrisonville is the bill’s sponsor.

He says the bobcat population is growing in rural, non-farming areas of western and southern Illinois.

The hunting and trapping season would occur sometime between Nov. 1 and Feb. 15. A hunter would be allowed to kill one bobcat per year.

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  4. Disgusting humans!
    I hate hunters and their guts. There is nothing worst than blood thirsty lunatics! I would never ever want to kill a bug but, these idiots that call themselves “hunters” are allowed to murder my best friends for “fun”, their furs and for “trophies” only to collect dust??? There is no need to “control” the animals but the stupid humans need to be controlled …it’s mind-blowing how those in “power” are just so misguided,so ignorant,disrespectful and arrogant? ALL THIS IS TERRIBLY WRONG AND COMPLETELY OUT OF SITE. WE are NO longer in the 5th century and there is no “need” to murder anything but protect,defend and respect!!!

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