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Mountain Lion Killed On Scottsbluff, Nebraska Golf Course

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(Neb.)-Mountain Lion Killed On Scottsbluff Golf Course

By: Chris Fankhauser Posted at: 02/07/2008 11:03 AM


(Scottsbluff)-More information has been released regarding the mountain lion that was killed near Scottsbluff. According to Sam Wilson with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the young male lion was shot and killed at approximately 10:30 this morning at a location on the north side of Scottsbluff.

Wilson said that almost all lions that are shot and killed are young males, and are assumed to be trying to find new territory. Also, Wilson said that at any time a lion enters city limits, it is lethally removed when it can be done safely.

Several law enforcement officers and wildlife biologists were on the scene, according to Wilson.
 
OMG!!! :shock: :shock: " Nuther reason for me to be glad I'm outta there!!!

I saw ' something' one foggy AM down near the RR tracks on the lower side of our SB place. I didn't know what I saw...but I saw something. The hands back @ HQ laffed at me and just said I was an " eastern gal huntin' boogers in the wild west".

About 2 days later the neighbor man came by, he'd just moved into that place only a few months, and said one ' cat' had tagged one of his horses on the rump. From his time line...that was the cat I saw.

From then on the guys started packing their rifles/pistols a bit closer to them. I guess someone shot it eventually.
 
Glad they got him. I don't know how your laws are in Nebr. But Liberty Belle and others are trying to get a bill passed that any lions outside of the parks are considered fair game. Hope they get it passed, would really make sense. Of course logic doesn't always work in legislature.

Should only be one "Tiger" roaming the golf courses! :wink:
 
We get the odd bear on our golf course here but they usually just run them off. My buddy down in the SE corner of the province shot a record book whitetail buck on their local course lol. There's a bunch of foxes on the Loon Lake course that steal golf balls off the fairways-it's just considered a unique local hazard.
 
Cat sightings around here are always met with a critics scowl..... I have seen the evidence of them, some tracks and such, but never got a GOOD look at one. always a glimps or a "what was that " moment.
 
One guy here in the valley had a mountain lion in his garage last Saturday. Dow came and tranquilized it then hauled it away. It was at Lea & Celesta Adams old place if Shortgrass reads this.

I have a friend that got a good cat a few weeks ago. It weighed 142 lbs. He shot it with a 44 mag. pistol and he used a load that didn't expand very well. From the base of the tree he shot the cat around 3 times. When the cat was jumping down out of the tree he shot it in the air while he was falling backwards. He said the cat landed right next to him on the ground. The cat had a fresh bull elk he had killed and covered with tree branches. My friend could replay the whole kill from the tracks in the snow.
 
Had a mountain lion kill a deer close to the house about a month ago. There was a nice bunch of deer (about 35 head, mule deer) hanging around, but since the kill they took off and havn't been back.
 
we have them here too like jigs said usually catch a glimpse of them my mom saw two of them on the side of the road a few years back. i have seen tracks while checking fences in the river bottoms in the spring. you hear lots of talk about somebody seeing one or finding tracks but the MNR would just say they saw a linx, or bobcat. last time i checked a linx and bobcat aren't as big as a lion and they have a different tail.
 
Ah I was on the other side of the mountains :)...Ned Jr. 's photos are close to where I grew up...we lived on a ranch that bordered Huerfano and Custer County..I went to school in Custer County
 

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