PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -
The state of New York is moving forward with a controversial expansion of bobcat hunting.
The five-year management plan will lengthen the hunting and trapping season for the elusive cats by an extra two months and expand hunting opportunities into parts of central and western New York.
State biologists say the population of bobcats is growing to an estimated 5-thousand animals. Despite the longer hunting and trapping seasons biologists do not expect a large increase in the number of cats killed, because much of the terrain where the animals live is not easily accessible in the winter.
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