Legislation approved in House committee on Tuesday will allow the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to establish an annual bobcat season in the state of Illinois. State Representative Wayne Rosenthal of Morrisonville, who is the bill’s sponsor, presented the measure to the House committee:

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This legislation also makes a technical change correcting a conflict of how long a hunter or trapper may have a green hide of a fur-bearing mammal following an open season so that there’s no question that the limit is 20 days.