mountain lion in town

Game, Fish and Parks officials say they had no choice. They say an adult mountain lion living and hunting within the city limits of Rapid City is a situation that's simply too dangerous to be tolerated. Big game biologists shot and killed an adult mountain lion in Rapid City Tuesday morning. It was a female that had been sighted over the weekend along with two cubs. It was roaming a neighborhood in southwest Rapid City along Penrose Place. It had killed a deer in the neighborhood, and Game, Fish and Parks officials say it had drug the carcass across a backyard, under a swing-set, and into a brushy area. The place where it was killed is right in the middle of an up-scale residential area, not far from Corral Drive Elementary School. The female had two cubs about eight months old, one of which was captured this past weekend. The G,F & P hunters are trying to capture the other cub alive as soon as they can. They say they have a zoo lined up that will take the young animals.