Connecticut’s once dwindling bobcat population was facing extirpation until 1972 when unregulated exploitation was halted and the bobcat was reclassified as a protected furbearer with no hunting or trapping seasons. Since then, the bobcat population has recovered due to improving forest habitat conditions and legal protections. Learn more about their life history, preferred habitat, and what to do if you are lucky enough to see one.

Sponsored by Granby Public Library and Granby Land Trust.

A native Texan, Ginny Apple has hiked, climbed, kayaked, skied, and poked her way through the outdoors and developed a passion for all things natural.  A move to the middle of the woods in Barkhamsted over a decade ago brought her into an environment filled with bears and other wildlife. Living in a house surrounded by Peoples State Forest, she regularly observes and documents a large population of black bears for state biologists. Her affinity for this magnificent creature led her out west to participate in a Grizzly research mission in Montana and to become a Master Wildlife Conservationist with the Connecticut State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

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