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management status for each state before exports of pelts are allowed.
Some states have gone so far as to ban bobcat hunting and trapping altogether, but many officials argue that this is a mistake. “Most of our bobcat information is derived from hunting and trapping,” Chet McCord of the Massachusetts fisheries and wildlife division recently told National Wildlife magazine. “Without this information, we can’t manage the animals.”
But Maurice Hornocker, of Idaho, one of the country’s best-known wildlife biologists, does not entirely agree. “Trapping information has its place,” he explained to National Wildlife, “but too many states use it as a crutch—an easy way to manage bobcats without doing the necessary in-depth studies.”
Kendrew hopes the research conference can help settle these arguments. Among the issues to be discussed at the conference are survey techniques, harvest reports, pelt trade and utilitization, factors affecting harvest level, response of population to harvest, and the relationship of habitat studies to census techniques.
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