Linn Grove, IA (RI) — Another mountain lion has been spotted in northwest Iowa.
A motion-sensor camera was set up by Aaron Anderson near Linn Grove. He was hoping to film the movement of deer, but instead he caught a mountain lion in the images.
Vince Evelsizer, a D-N-R Furbearer Biologist based in Clear Lake, says he’s also seen the comments from people who want to shoot and kill the animal, but he hopes they won’t.
Some residents in Buena Vista and Clay counties expressed fears on social media about sending small kids out in rural areas to wait for the school bus. Evelsizer says the children will be fine, as cougars generally don’t want anything to do with people.
In late June, a D-N-R officer killed a female mountain lion that had climbed into a tree on a farm near Galva. The D-N-R said it was the first confirmed female mountain lion in Iowa in more than a century. It was only the fourth time a mountain lion had been killed in Iowa.
Mountain lions that wander into Iowa generally come from South Dakota and Nebraska, which have natural populations.
(Photo thanks to Aaron Anderson)
