The recent flash of wildfires in the northwest Nebraska panhandle may be a reason mountain lion sightings have increased.
On Sunday morning around 10AM a male mountain lion was spotted in a tree by a 10-year-old girl Mikayla Jaggers, she then told her father Jeff Jaggers about the mountain lion. Once the young Jaggers was safe inside the family’s home east of Rushville, Jeff Jaggers shot the mountain lion out of the tree.
The tree occupied by the mountain lion is located near a chicken coop.
Nebraska Game and Parks officials obtained the carcass of the mountain lion for testing. The wildfires in the panhandle burned more than 200 square miles of grasslands and trees which could attribute to increased mountain lion sightings.
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